The Ministry of Health COVID numbers for today include 60 new community cases, and 7 remain in ICU. Test results are obtained via use of the PCR test.
Hospitalisations:
- Cases in hospital: 44; North Shore: 7; Auckland: 15; Middlemore: 18; Tauranga: 2; Lakes: 2
- Vaccination status of current hospitalisations (Northern Region wards only): Unvaccinated or not eligible (16 cases / 42.1%); partially immunised <7 days from second dose or have only received one dose (9 cases / 23.7%); fully vaccinated at least 7 days before being reported as a case (13 cases / 34.2%)
- Average age of current hospitalisations: 54
- Cases in ICU or HDU: 7 (2 in Auckland; 3 in Middlemore, 2 in Tauranga)
Cases:
- Seven day rolling average of community cases: 44.3
- Number of new community cases: 60
- Number of new cases identified at the border: 11
- Location of new community cases: Northland (1), Auckland (20), Waikato (28), Bay of Plenty (8), Lakes (1), Tairāwhiti (1), Canterbury (1).
- Number of community cases (total): 10,776 (in current community outbreak)
- Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 8077
- Number of active cases (total): 1,128 (cases identified in the past 21 days and not yet classed as recovered)
- Confirmed cases (total): 13687
