Coronavirus Covid-19: update from the Ministry of Health on the latest cases

The Ministry of Health is ready to update New Zealand on the latest number of Covid-19 cases at 1pm today.

It comes before Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces tomorrow whether Auckland is ready to return to alert level 1. Any decision will not take effect until Wednesday, he said.

Yesterday, a new case of Covid-19 was reported in managed isolation.

There were no new community cases to report.

The person who tested positive yesterday arrived in New Zealand on October 1 from England via Hong Kong. They have been transferred to the Auckland quarantine facility.

As of yesterday, the total number of confirmed cases in New Zealand since the pandemic began is 1,493.

This morning, Ardern said that the country had been tracking as expected, but would not speculate on tomorrow’s decision.

“Any decision that is made will not take effect until Wednesday, that is because we must notify the changes in the rules.”

It was announced yesterday that three previously reported cases were deemed to have been recovered, bringing our total number of active cases to 41.

Of these, 33 are imported cases in managed isolation facilities and eight are community cases.

Yesterday there was no one in the hospital with Covid-19 in New Zealand.

On Friday, New Zealand labs processed 5,728 tests, bringing the total number of tests completed to date to 976,369.

Yesterday, the ministry called for vigilance as the school holidays continued and early voting began.

People should scan their polling places with the NZ Covid Tracer app, use the hand sanitizer provided before entering and leaving the polling place, bring their own pen to mark the voting paper, and maintain social distance from strangers in the polling place. “even at alert level 1”.