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Covid-19 numbers: 68 new community cases in New Zealand today

Covid-19 numbers: 68 new community cases in New Zealand today

At today's government update, Director of Public Health Caroline McElnay said there were now 277 cases now in the Delta outbreak - 263 in Auckland, 14 in Wellington.

There were two new cases in Wellington announced today, both close contacts who had been in isolation during their infectious period.

There is also one new case in managed isolation and one previously reported community case has been reclassified after being confirmed as a false positive.

Dr McElnay said there had been Covid-19 detected in Christchurch's wastewater, but stressed that there were people with the coronavirus isolating in the city and the result was expected.

There were new 62 cases in the community yesterday.

Earlier today Dr Ashley Bloomfield said officials are considering the issue of booster injections for those who received their Pfizer vaccines at the start of the year.

At today's government update, Director of Public Health Caroline McElnay said there were now 277 cases now in the Delta outbreak - 263 in Auckland, 14 in Wellington.

There were two new cases in Wellington announced today, both close contacts who had been in isolation during their infectious period.

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