Covid-19: New Zealand has 25 new coronavirus cases in one day for the first time since April, but this time it’s different

For the first time since April, New Zealand has registered 25 new cases of coronavirus in one day.

But this time it is different.

Unlike our initial outbreak, all new cases reported Wednesday are in quarantine.

Of the new confirmed cases, 18 are imported and in isolation managed in Christchurch. These people are international fishermen linked to the same group of positive cases that were reported on Tuesday.

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Another three are unrelated imported cases of recent returnees, while the last two cases reported by Health Director-General Dr. Ashley Bloomfield on Wednesday were contacts linked to a dock worker, one close and one casual.

At Wednesday’s press conference, Bloomfield said 25 confirmed cases were possibly a “record” as “we haven’t had that number in a while.”

In fact, we do not report that number of confirmed cases in one day since April 8, when there were 50 cases, 26 confirmed and 24 probable, reported by the Ministry of Health.

On April 11, 29 more cases were reported, but this consisted of 20 confirmed and 9 probable cases.

However, in April, when the country was still locked in, we had a community extension, as well as 12 major groups throughout the country.

While today, the ministry is aware of the location of the cases reported on Wednesday and is monitoring them and conducting routine tests and contact tracing.

Bloomfield also compared the current situation in New Zealand with that of other countries to remind ourselves that our phase-out strategy and border restrictions are working.

He compared our daily total to Spain’s to help put “our 25 cases today in perspective.”

On Tuesday, Bloomfield said Spain announced 48,000 new cases. “That would be the equivalent of New Zealand announcing almost 4,000 cases in one day,” he said.

“Spain is among a number of European countries that are experiencing more than 1000 new infections every day and are implementing quite significant movement restrictions, and / or reverting to quite significant blockades, Ireland is a good example of the latter,” he said. .

Italy is another European country that is experiencing a second wave of Covid-19, with some regions planning to introduce a nightly curfew to help curb infection rates. Some parts of Germany have also seen lockdown restrictions reintroduced.

Bloomfield reiterated that we still have a significant pandemic that is not going away anytime soon.

“We have done well so far, but the only thing that matters now is what we do now and what we do next, and we all have to play our part in that.”

Bloomfield said that “we cannot afford to be complacent.” They were not being complacent at the border and in managed isolation facilities, and all New Zealanders needed to make sure they were not being complacent in our communities, he said.

“We want to remain in the current state that we are in, which is a high level of trust, we have eliminated community transmission of Covid-19.”

Globally, there have been more than 40.5 million confirmed cases with 1.1 million deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.

The United States continues to lead both the number of confirmed cases, 8.1 million, and deaths, with 220,900. India has registered more than 7.5 million confirmed cases, with 115,000 deaths. While Brazil has reported more than 5.2 million confirmed cases and 154,000 deaths.