ISSUE
Friday, August 22, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 73
Dr Ashley Bloomfield speaking to the media today reported nine new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24-hours and seven of them are related to the community and none in managed isolation facilities.
This brings the total number of cases in New Zealand 1280, 78 are active currently of which 58 are related to community transmission.
Yesterday, MoH conducted 26,014 tests conducted which brings total tests done in the last five months to 597,956, of which over 100,000 was conducted in the last one week.
As of 6pm yesterday, 86 people have been moved to quarantine facilities.
There are five people in hospital - two in Auckland Hospital and three in Middlemore Hospital.
The three in Middlemore Hospital were transferred from the Jet Park facility and were connected to the existing cluster.
Dr Bloomfield says labs and testing stations are experiencing unprecedented levels of demand and there can be delays of 48 hours, with the priority to those who are at high risk.
"Testing at the border for the workforce at airports and ports continue to increase," he said, adding there was now a dedicated testing team at the Ports of Auckland with extended hours.
Testing of all government agency frontline workers are either complete or about to be completed, he said.
Yesterday 12 new community cases of Covid-19 were reported, all in Auckland and all connected to existing cases, and one new case in managed isolation.
Today Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has moved the election date to 17 October due to the community outbreak of Covid-19 and says she will not be changing it again.
Dr Ashley Bloomfield speaking to the media today reported nine new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24-hours and seven of them are related to the community and none in managed isolation facilities.
This brings the total number of cases in New Zealand 1280, 78 are active currently of which 58 are...
Dr Ashley Bloomfield speaking to the media today reported nine new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24-hours and seven of them are related to the community and none in managed isolation facilities.
This brings the total number of cases in New Zealand 1280, 78 are active currently of which 58 are related to community transmission.
Yesterday, MoH conducted 26,014 tests conducted which brings total tests done in the last five months to 597,956, of which over 100,000 was conducted in the last one week.
As of 6pm yesterday, 86 people have been moved to quarantine facilities.
There are five people in hospital - two in Auckland Hospital and three in Middlemore Hospital.
The three in Middlemore Hospital were transferred from the Jet Park facility and were connected to the existing cluster.
Dr Bloomfield says labs and testing stations are experiencing unprecedented levels of demand and there can be delays of 48 hours, with the priority to those who are at high risk.
"Testing at the border for the workforce at airports and ports continue to increase," he said, adding there was now a dedicated testing team at the Ports of Auckland with extended hours.
Testing of all government agency frontline workers are either complete or about to be completed, he said.
Yesterday 12 new community cases of Covid-19 were reported, all in Auckland and all connected to existing cases, and one new case in managed isolation.
Today Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has moved the election date to 17 October due to the community outbreak of Covid-19 and says she will not be changing it again.
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