Covid 19 coronavirus: are there new cases of Covid-19 today?

The Ministry of Health must publish the latest number of Covid-19 cases.

Yesterday there were two new cases in New Zealand, both detected in a managed isolation facility.

And the only remaining group from New Zealand appears to have been eliminated after having only one new case linked to it in two weeks.

Alert Level 1 also draws Auckland’s attention, with Cabinet set to review City of Sails restrictions on Monday.

Yesterday’s two cases arrived on the same flight from the United Arab Emirates on September 23, but started in different places.

One arrived on a flight from Ukraine and the other from Pakistan, the Health Ministry said in a statement yesterday.

“They were on the same flight but they weren’t traveling together,” the ministry said.

“Both people tested positive as a result of tests conducted around the third day and were transferred to the Auckland quarantine facility.”

There were no new cases in the community.

There were 18 people in isolation at the community’s Auckland quarantine facility, which includes 9 people who tested positive for Covid-19 and their household contacts.

One person was in the hospital with Covid-19. The patient was isolated in a general ward at Middlemore Hospital in Auckland.

The last remaining group from New Zealand

Health and data researchers say we’re fine to lower alert levels, but level 1 should come with conditions.

In the past two weeks there have been eight community cases and none in the past four days.

Public health professor Nick Wilson said the drop in cases was a success story for New Zealand health authorities and the public.

“The situation is looking very good for Auckland. It looks like there will be downward adjustments to alert levels the next time they are reviewed,” Wilson said.

“We are really coming back hard to get the whole country Covid free.”

Auckland’s core group, with 179 cases, was easily the largest the country faced, almost twice the size of any other.

Young people looking for work are the most affected by the virus

Young job seekers have been hit hard by Covid-19, with a more than 80 percent increase in the number of 18-24 year olds receiving the job seeker allowance.

Recent data from the Ministry of Social Development shows that the number of young people aged 18 to 19 who receive the subsidy for job seekers rose from 5,970 in August 2019 to 11,105 in August 2020. That is an increase of 5,135 young people in the profit, or an increase of 86 percent.

The number of youth ages 20-24 with the same allowance went from 14,220 in August 2019 to 26,268 in August 2020. That’s 12,048 more people on the allowance, or an 84 percent increase.

By comparison, job seekers seeking help in the 40-44 age group went from 6,774 in August 2019 to 9,949 in August 2020, an increase of just over 46 percent.

To get help for job seekers, young people had to be unemployed and look for work or have a part time job and look for more work.

– Additional RNZ reports