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Exposure Event At Middlemore Hospital
Monday, 11 October 2021, 7:54 pm | Ministry of Health
Counties Manukau DHB has this evening advised the Ministry of Health of a COVID-19 exposure event at Middlemore Hospital. It comes after a patient today returned a positive COVID-19 test result. The case presented to Middlemore Hospital’s Emergency ... More >>
35 Community Cases Of COVID-19; More Than 42,000 Vaccines Administered Yesterday
Monday, 11 October 2021, 1:34 pm | Ministry of Health
There are35new community cases today – all are in the Auckland region. Of these cases, 14 have known links to existing cases (including four household contacts) and 21 remain under investigation. Due to time of reporting, the previously reported ... More >>
60 Community Cases Of COVID-19; One New Case In Managed Isolation; More Than 81,000 Vaccines Administered Yesterday
Sunday, 10 October 2021, 2:00 pm | Ministry of Health
There are60new community cases today, 56 in Auckland; 3 in Waikato and 1 in the Bay of Plenty. The three new Waikato cases are linked to the initial Hamilton East case. The Bay of Plenty case was reported publicly last evening and is included ... More >>
Positive COVID-19 Case In The Bay Of Plenty
Saturday, 9 October 2021, 6:16 pm | Ministry of Health
The Ministry of Health is today confirming the results of a COVID-19 test taken yesterday in Auckland, which has returned positive today for a person currently in Katikati. The person lives in Pukekohe and is in the process of moving to a rural ... More >>
34 Community Cases Of COVID-19; Two New Cases In Managed Isolation
Saturday, 9 October 2021, 1:57 pm | Ministry of Health
34 community cases of COVID-19; two new cases in managed isolation; more than 85,000 vaccines administered yesterday; highest vaccinations for Māori There are34new community cases today, of which 23 have already been linked to the outbreak (of which ... More >>
Northland To Move To Alert Level 3 Tonight
Friday, 8 October 2021, 6:53 pm | Ministry of Health
Northland will move to Alert Level 3 restrictions from 11:59pm tonight following recent information on the risk presented by the positive case initially tested in Whangarei earlier this week and confirmed in Auckland yesterday, COVID-19 Response ... More >>
COVID-19 & Vaccination Update 8 October
Friday, 8 October 2021, 12:56 pm | Ministry of Health
44 community cases of COVID-19; three new cases in managed isolation; more than 82,000 vaccines administered yesterday There are44new community cases today.20 of these are household contacts, 12 are known contacts, and 12 remain ... More >>
Positive Case In Auckland Who Travelled To Northland
Thursday, 7 October 2021, 6:58 pm | Ministry of Health
A case that was under investigation after returning a weak positive result from a test in Whangarei earlier this week has today returned a positive test result in Auckland. The Ministry’s current assessment is that the earlier weak result combined ... More >>
29 Community Cases Of COVID-19; More Than 70,000 Vaccines Doses Administered Yesterday
Thursday, 7 October 2021, 1:13 pm | Ministry of Health
One previously confirmed Auckland case has now been reclassified as under investigation and removed from the overall outbreak tally. The recently reported Upper Hauraki case was initially reported as a Waikato case was intended to be included in yesterday’s ... More >>
Further Details Of Middlemore Death Released
Wednesday, 6 October 2021, 4:04 pm | Ministry of Health
The Ministry is providing further details of the death reported earlier today in Middlemore hospital linked to COVID-19. The man in his 50s had underlying health conditions and was a confirmed case of COVID-19. The patient spent a total of 40 ... More >>
39 Community Cases Of COVID-19; Two Border Cases; More Than 63,000 Vaccines Doses Administered Yesterday
Wednesday, 6 October 2021, 12:58 pm | Ministry of Health
6 October 2021 Cases Number of new community cases* 39 Number of new cases identified at the border Two Location of new community cases Auckland (30); Waikato (9) Location ... More >>
Covid-19 & Vaccination Update 5th October
Tuesday, 5 October 2021, 12:59 pm | Ministry of Health
5 October 2021 Cases Number of new community cases* 24 (including one historical) Number of new cases identified at the border Two (including one historical) Location of new community cases ... More >>
29 Community Cases Of COVID-19; Two Border Related Cases In Managed Isolation; Two Million Fully Vaccinated
Monday, 4 October 2021, 12:56 pm | Ministry of Health
4 October Cases Number of new community cases 29 Number of new cases identified at the border Two Location of new community cases * Auckland (28); Waikato (1) Location of ... More >>
Exposure Event At Auckland City Hospital
Sunday, 3 October 2021, 8:07 pm | Ministry of Health
Auckland DHB has advised the Ministry of Health that a parent of a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) baby at Auckland City Hospital tested positive for COVID-19 today. Movements in and out of NICU have been restricted and the DHB is testing all staff, ... More >>
Waikato, Palmerston North Cases Update
Sunday, 3 October 2021, 6:16 pm | Ministry of Health
All initial tests from household members of COVID-19 cases in Hamilton East and Palmerston North have this afternoon returned negative results. Results were received for two household members of the Auckland-based truck driver who is isolating in ... More >>
Two COVID-19 Cases In Waikato
Sunday, 3 October 2021, 2:06 pm | Ministry of Health
The Ministry of Health has been notified of two new positive COVID-19 community cases in Waikato. One case is in Raglan and the other is in Hamilton East. The case in Raglan is self-isolating at this stage and will be moved to a quarantine facility. ... More >>
33 Community Cases Of COVID-19; More Than 50,000 Vaccines Administered Yesterday
Sunday, 3 October 2021, 2:01 pm | Ministry of Health
Cases *Number of new community cases 33 Number of new cases identified at the border Zero Location of new community cases Auckland (32), Waikato (1) Location of community cases (total) Auckland (including four cases in Upper Hauraki; ... More >>
Auckland-based Truck Driver Tests Positive For COVID-19
Saturday, 2 October 2021, 8:00 pm | Ministry of Health
An Auckland-based truck driver who travelled to Palmerston North for work purposes has tested positive for COVID-19. The case was detected in a routine surveillance test which was done in Auckland yesterday, and which returned a positive result earlier ... More >>
27 Community Cases Of COVID-19; One New Case In Managed Isolation; More Than 47,000 Vaccines Administered Yesterday
Saturday, 2 October 2021, 1:59 pm | Ministry of Health
There are 27 new community cases today. 14 of these are household contacts, eight are known contacts and five are under investigation to determine how they are linked to the current outbreak. Due to the highly infectious nature of the Delta variant ... More >>
Ministry Of Health To Trial Near Field Communication (NFC) Tap In TechnologyWith NZ COVID Tracer
Friday, 1 October 2021, 4:18 pm | Ministry of Health
From 4 October, the Ministry of Health will begin trialling use of Near Field Communications (NFC) tags with the NZ COVID Tracer app at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington anda number ofsmall businesses. People with a compatible ... More >>
