Covid 19 coronavirus: No new community cases, six cases in managed isolation

There are no new community cases of Covid-19 and six new cases in managed isolation.

The new positive cases are recent returnees from India, Egypt, the United States and the United Kingdom.

The latest cases at MIQ all came between March 21 and April 2; two traveled together from Egypt.

Five cases flew through the United Arab Emirates and one through Singapore.

All are in controlled isolation or quarantine facilities in Auckland.

Twelve people have recovered from the virus since Thursday, bringing the country’s total number of active cases to 61.

The seven-day moving average of new cases detected at the border is three. Our total number of confirmed cases is 2,151.

More than 10,500 tests have been processed in the last three days and 29,151 in the past week.

The next update of the Ministry of Health is scheduled for Tuesday at 1:00 p.m.

Vaccines

More than 14,000 New Zealanders are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, as of March 31.

The deployment of the Government continues, with the aim of having two million people vaccinated by the middle of this year.

There have been more than 52,000 recipients of the prick and about 66,000 doses have been administered.

The government has secured 10 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine, enough to vaccinate 5 million people. Most of these vaccines will arrive in the second half of 2021.

The Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine is the only Covid-19 vaccine that has received Medsafe approval. New Zealand has agreements with three other providers, although these vaccines are still awaiting approval from Medsafe. These are the Janssen vaccine (5 million courses on request), Novavax (5.36 million) and AstraZeneca (3.8 million).

On March 10, the government announced its vaccine launch strategy, which assigns New Zealanders to four priority groups.

The first two groups have started receiving vaccines.

After prioritizing border and MIQ workers and their domestic contacts, 480,000 frontline workers and people living in high-risk environments will be next on the list.

The vaccines will start with the 57,000 healthcare workers on the front lines of the community and then move on to other healthcare workers. This group also includes Maori and Pacific older people cared for by whānau, their caregivers and the people they live with. Anyone living in the Counties Manukau DHB area who is 65 or older or has an underlying health condition is also in Group 2.