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Friday, August 15, 2025
Volume 16 . Issue 72
Another 19 people have died with Covid-19 and there are 11,548 new community cases, the Ministry of Health reports.
There were also 710 people in hospital compared with 689 people yesterday, including 17 in intensive care or a high dependency unit, the ministry said in its daily update.
Numbers admitted to hospital have been increasing in the last few days, with the ministry describing the trend as "significant" on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Health Minister Andrew Little said he has heard the "despairing comments" doctors have made about the state of the health sector.
"We have a chronic staffing shortage and we are having one of the worst winters we have ever had because of Covid ... because of the flu season we are having at the moment," Little told Morning Report.
He said the government was trying to "the fill the gaps" in healthcare.
Another 19 people have died with Covid-19 and there are 11,548 new community cases, the Ministry of Health reports.
There were also 710 people in hospital compared with 689 people yesterday, including 17 in intensive care or a high dependency unit, the ministry said in its daily update.
Numbers...
Another 19 people have died with Covid-19 and there are 11,548 new community cases, the Ministry of Health reports.
There were also 710 people in hospital compared with 689 people yesterday, including 17 in intensive care or a high dependency unit, the ministry said in its daily update.
Numbers admitted to hospital have been increasing in the last few days, with the ministry describing the trend as "significant" on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Health Minister Andrew Little said he has heard the "despairing comments" doctors have made about the state of the health sector.
"We have a chronic staffing shortage and we are having one of the worst winters we have ever had because of Covid ... because of the flu season we are having at the moment," Little told Morning Report.
He said the government was trying to "the fill the gaps" in healthcare.
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