New Zealand continued to record daily COVID-19 cases in the single-digits this week, with Aotearoa so far reporting 1485 cases overall, the majority of which are now recovered.
There have been 1134 confirmed cases, which is the number New Zealand reports to the World Health Organization. The additional 351 cases are considered probable. This is where there hasn't been a positive laboratory result but clinicians believe, considering exposure history and symptoms, that the individual does have the respiratory illness.
Overall, 1263 cases have recovered, which is higher than the number of confirmed cases recorded but takes into account recovered probable cases. An individual is considered to have recovered when it has been at least 10 days since the onset of the symptoms and when they haven't shown symptoms for at least two days.
There are currently five people in hospital, with none in intensive care. Twenty people have died from the illness.
Where are the cases?
As of Saturday, the Waitemata District Health Board (DHB) continues to have reported the most cases of COVID-19, though it ties with Waikato in terms of having the most active cases. Tairawhiti on the east of the North Island has recorded the fewest cases of the illness, while several regions no longer have any active cases. Two of New Zealand's hospitalised cases are in Auckland, with a single hospitalised case in Counties Manukau, South Canterbury and Waitemata.
Cases in each DHB, ordered by the overall number of cases recorded
- Waitemata: 35 active, 188 recovered, 3 dead. Total: 226
- Southern: 9 active, 205 recovered, 2 dead. Total: 216
- Waikato: 35 active, 150 recovered, 1 dead. Total: 186
- Auckland: 24 active, 154 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 178
- Canterbury: 34 active, 118 recovered, 11 dead. Total: 163
- Counties Manukau: 17 active, 110 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 127
- Capital and Coast: 5 active, 88 recovered, 2 dead. Total: 95
- Nelson Marlborough: 3 active, 46 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 49
- Bay of Plenty: 10 active, 37 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 47
- Hawke's Bay: 13 active, 31 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 44
- MidCentral: 0 active, 31 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 31
- Northland: 4 active, 24 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 28
- Hutt Valley: 4 active, 16 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 20
- South Canterbury: 5 active, 12 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 17
- Lakes: 2 active, 14 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 16
- Taranaki: 2 active, 14 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 16
- Whanganui: 0 active, 9 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 9
- Wairarapa: 0 active, 8 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 8
- West Coast: 0 active, 4 recovered, 1 dead. Total: 5
- Tairawhiti: 0 active, 4 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 4.
Transmission
The Ministry of Health has recently changed the way transmission type data is presented publicly. Previously, there were four main sets of data - contact with known case, recent overseas travel, community transmission and source under investigation.
Now the Ministry has five types of transmission:
- Imported cases: Cases with a reported history of international travel within 14 days of the onset of their symptoms (38 percent)
- Imported related cases: Cases that have a reported link (close contact or an epidemiological link) to an imported or overseas acquired case (32 percent)
- Locally acquired cases, epidemiologically linked: Cases that have a reported link to a locally acquired case with an unknown source (24 percent)
- Locally acquired cases, unknown source: Cases that have no reported history of international travel within 14 days of the onset of their symptoms and no recorded epidemiological link to a source case (4 percent)
- Source under investigation (1 percent).
Clusters
Many of New Zealand's cases are linked to clusters. These are groups of COVID-19 cases linked together as the individuals have been to the same location, but are not all part of the same household.
New Zealand has had 16 significant clusters, meaning where a cluster has 10 or more cases, of which three are considered closed. A closed cluster is where there is no longer transmission within or associated with it. Officials make this determination when there has been 28 consecutive days - or two cycles of the virus' incubation period - of no new cases.
Many of New Zealand's clusters have unknown origins.
This data is accurate as of Friday.
- Bluff wedding: 98 cases, linked to overseas exposure
- Marist College, Auckland: 94 cases, unknown origins
- Matamata Bar: 76 cases, linked to overseas exposure
- Rosewood Rest Home, Christchurch: 54 cases, unknown origins
- Stag party, Auckland: 39 cases, unknown origins
- World Hereford Conference, Queenstown: 38 cases, linked to overseas exposure
- St Margaret's Rest Home, Auckland: 34 cases, unknown origin
- Community, Auckland: 30 cases, unknown origin
- Ruby Princess Cruise Ship, Hawke's Bay: 23 cases, linked to overseas exposure
- George Manning retirement village, Christchurch: 20 cases, unknown origin
- Wellington group which travelled to the United States: 16 cases, linked to overseas exposure, closed
- Auckland group which travelled to the United States: 16 cases, linked to overseas exposure, closed
- Waikato rest home: 15 cases, linked to overseas exposure
- Auckland rest home: 13 cases, linked to overseas exposure
- Wellington wedding: 13 cases, linked to overseas exposure, closed
- Christchurch workplace: 10 cases, linked to overseas exposure.
Ages
- 0-9: 8 active, 26 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 34
- 10-19: 7 active, 110 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 117
- 20-29: 26 active, 330 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 356
- 30-39: 36 active, 189 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 225
- 40-49: 34 active, 184 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 218
- 50-59: 32 active, 213 recovered, 0 dead: Total: 245
- 60-69: 28 active, 144 recovered, 2 dead. Total: 174
- 70+: 31 active, 67 recovered, 18 dead. Total: 116.
Gender
- Female: 825 (56 percent)
- Male: 659 (44 percent)
- Not specific: 1.
Ethnicity
- European or other: 1055 (71 percent)
- Asian: 178 (12 percent)
- Maori: 126 (8 percent)
- Pacific Peoples: 77 (5 percent)
- Middle Eastern / Latin American / African: 33 (2 percent)
- Unknown: 16 (1 percent).
