The Ministry of Health have released COVID statistics for today Sunday, 16 January 2022.
Hospitalisations:
- Cases in hospital: 22; North Shore: 5; Auckland: 8; Middlemore: 8; Tauranga: 1.
- Vaccination status of current hospitalisations (Northern Region wards only): Unvaccinated or not eligible (6 cases / 30%); partially immunised <7 days from second dose or have only received one dose (6 case / 30%); fully vaccinated at least 7 days before being reported as a case (7 cases / 35%); unknown (1 case / 5%).
- Average age of current hospitalisations: 51
- Cases in ICU or HDU: 2; Middlemore: 1; Tauranga: 1
Cases:
- Seven day rolling average of community cases: 24
- Seven day rolling average of border cases: 32
- Number of new community cases: 25
- Number of new cases identified at the border: 43
- Location of new community cases: Northland (1), Auckland (15), Waikato (2), Bay of Plenty (3), Lakes (2), Hawke’s Bay (1)*, Wellington (1)
- Number of community cases (total): 11,306 (in current community outbreak)
- Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 8587
- Number of active cases (total): 554 (cases identified in the past 21 days and not yet classified as recovered)
- Confirmed cases (total): 14,694
COVID statistics and cases are determined in New Zealand by use of the PCR test.
