ISSUE
Friday, August 15, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 72
The Ministry of Health is addressing the media on the latest Covid-19 developments in New Zealand on earlier today announced that 36 new cases of Cov-d-19 have been detected.
The brings the total infected in New Zealand to a scary figure of 102.
More than half are directly related to overseas travel.
Health Director-General Dr Ashley Bloomfield said there were still two cases - in the Wairarapa and Auckland - that could not be linked to overseas travel and are being treated as community transmission.
More than 7400 tests have been carried out so far and there were 1100-1500 tests being done every day.
Contacting tracing efforts were being ramped up, said Dr Bloomfield.
The Ministry of Health's new team to contact trace can do 50 new cases a day and Dr Bloomfield said this was on top of the previous MoH team.
He said the alert levels were a government decision and the Prime Minister would be talking about the alert level within the hour.
More to come.
The Ministry of Health is addressing the media on the latest Covid-19 developments in New Zealand on earlier today announced that 36 new cases of Cov-d-19 have been detected.
The brings the total infected in New Zealand to a scary figure of 102.
More than half are directly related to overseas...
The Ministry of Health is addressing the media on the latest Covid-19 developments in New Zealand on earlier today announced that 36 new cases of Cov-d-19 have been detected.
The brings the total infected in New Zealand to a scary figure of 102.
More than half are directly related to overseas travel.
Health Director-General Dr Ashley Bloomfield said there were still two cases - in the Wairarapa and Auckland - that could not be linked to overseas travel and are being treated as community transmission.
More than 7400 tests have been carried out so far and there were 1100-1500 tests being done every day.
Contacting tracing efforts were being ramped up, said Dr Bloomfield.
The Ministry of Health's new team to contact trace can do 50 new cases a day and Dr Bloomfield said this was on top of the previous MoH team.
He said the alert levels were a government decision and the Prime Minister would be talking about the alert level within the hour.
More to come.
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