There are no cases of COVID-19 to report in the community today. There are five new cases of COVID-19 to report today in recent returnees in managed isolation facilities.
Two previously reported historical cases, associated with the Playa Zahara fishing vessel, have now been reclassified as ‘not a case’.
Neither case meets the current COVID-19 case definition. As a result, these cases have been removed from our total cases count and our historical cases tally.
The number of active cases in New Zealand is 46. Since 1 January 2021, there have been 107 historical cases, out of a total of 694 cases.