There are 28 new community cases of Covid-19 today – 27 in Auckland and one in Wellington, Director of Public Health Caroline McElnay has confirmed.
This takes the total number of cases in this outbreak to 764. Unlinked cases have dropped from 65 to 31, McElnay said.
There are 43 Covid-19 patients in hospital, with nine in ICU. A total of 31,668 – or 84 per cent of contacts – have been followed up by contact tracers, while 89,073 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine were delivered yesterday. Just over 64,000 of those were first doses.
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