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.