There are five new cases of COVID-19 to report
today in recent returnees in managed isolation
facilities.
Two previously reported historical cases,
associated with the Playa Zahara fishing vessel, have now
been reclassified as ‘not a case’. Neither case meets
the current COVID-19 case definition.
As a result,
these cases have been removed from our total cases count and
our historical cases tally.
The number of active cases
in New Zealand is 46.
Since 1 January 2021, there have
been 107 historical cases, out of a total of 694
cases.
The seven-day rolling average of new cases
detected at the border is five.
Our total number of