New Zealand is currently at Alert Level 3. We are preparing and will move to Alert Level 4 at 11.59 pm on Wednesday 25 March. More information on our alert level
Government COVID-19 Response Briefing
Ministry of Health Update:
- 50 new confirmed and probable cases in NZ – 47 are confirmed and 3 are probable.
- 205 combined new and probable cases
- 22 individuals have recovered
- 6 in hospital, 2 in Wellington, 1 in Rotorua, 1 in Waikato
- 5 confirmed cases within Marist College Community
- 1421 tested yesterday, 9780 tests in total
- Number of cases will rise for roughly ten days during the lock down as the virus continues to spread.
- Some community transmission in New Zealand.
- There are a handful of cases – 4 – where we don’t know where the infection came from (community transmission). There’s also a cluster of cases around Marist College, where 5 students have tested positive.
- Update on where current case are when the Health Ministry sends out its case map a little bit later.
- Asymptomatic people aren’t tested, Bloomfield said, because it might not always be accurate.
- Guidelines for funerals under level 4: there will be “very, very limited” numbers at those funerals. Further guidance will be released shortly.
Civil Defence Update
- 1159 tonight move to Alert Level 4
- State of National Emergency declared today
- New Civil Defence powers are in place for seven days, for the time being.
- Civil Defence alert tonight. It will be sent through to mobile phones. It should be familiar from the fairly regular tests carried out by Civil Defence.
- Powers of requisition (basically taking things that it needs – like fuel)
- Closing roads
- Stopping people doing activities
- Excluding people from places
- Prohibiting or regulating traffic
- No tolerance for non-compliance
- People shouldn’t be going out for a bit of a “mooch” and only go out if they need to.
- In terms of the enforcement of the lockdown, police will update us on that later on.
- Now a mobile alert system in place for all New Zealanders.
- If police needed to access military support to enforce alert lever four restrictions, they would be able to.
Business Update
- “Expectation that employers have to pass on the Government’s full wage subsidy to employees.
- MBIE said it would “look at” firewood delivery as an essential service, as wood is a fuel people used to keep warm.
- All non-essential staff in the public service have been sent home. Essential staff and people working on covid-19 response are still coming in to work.
- Stocks said essential and covid response staff are working from home where possible. Where it’s not possible they’re practicing physical distancing and using PPE.
Where Can You Get Tested?
Stuff has a list of testing centres:’
Northland DHB has seven facilities set up, most of which are already open and accepting samples. These are in Whangarei, Dargaville, Kaitaia Hospital, Kerikeri, Kaikohe, Kawakawa, and Rawene. The centre at Dargaville is set to open on Wednesday at 8.30am.
In Auckland, the T?maki Health/White Cross medical facility was operating three at Airport Oaks Local Doctors, St Lukes White Cross, and Henderson White Cross Surgical Care. Shorecare Northcross is another facilities in Auckland. An additional seven are said to be opening in the near future.
There is a testing centre set up at Hamilton’s Claudelands Events Centre, and another at Hastings Health Centre’s old building, set up by the Hawke’s Bay DHB.
Five testing facilities have been set up by MidCentral DHB in the Tararua, Horowhenua, Manwatu, Palmerston North and Otaki regions, according to chief executive Kathryn Cook. It also had mobile testing units that could be deployed to help people having difficulty travelling to the sites.
In the Wellington region, Capital & Coast, Hutt Valley, and Wairarapa DHBs are planning to open testing centres in areas that ensure vulnerable communities with low primary care coverage have access to testing.
The former Suburban Club building in Tahunanui?, Nelson has been turned into the largest coronavirus assessment centre in the top of the South Island. People could drive in and would be screened from their car by a nursing team.
A community testing centre has opened close to Christchurch Hospital. Others would be set up “across the community” as required.
Southland DHB is also opening centres in Dunedin, Invercargill and Queenstown.
COVID-19 – current cases
Last updated 2:00 pm, 25 March 2020.
We’ll be updating this page as new information is available.
Summary
- Number of confirmed cases in New Zealand – 189 (47 new in the last 24 hours)
- Number of probable cases – 16 (3 new in the last 24 hours)
- Total number of confirmed and probable cases – 205 (50 new in the last 24 hours)
- Number of recovered cases – 22 (10 new in the last 24 hours)
- Number of community transmission cases – 4
See below for details of Confirmed cases and Probable cases.
Confirmed cases
| Case | Location | Age | Gender | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 189 | Auckland | 20s | F | Details to come |
| 188 | Auckland | 40s | F | Details to come |
| 187 | Auckland | 20s | F | Details to come |
| 186 | Auckland | 20s | M | Details to come |
| 185 | Waitemata | 60s | M | Details to come |
| 184 | Wellington | 30s | M | Details to come |
| 183 | Wellington | 30s | M | Details to come |
| 182 | Wellington | 50s | M | Details to come |
| 181 | Wellington | 60s | F | Details to come |
| 180 | Wellington | 20s | M | Details to come |
| 179 | Wellington | 60s | M | Details to come |
| 178 | Wellington | 60s | F | Details to come |
| 177 | Wellington | 40s | M | Linked to a group trip to New York |
| 176 | Wellington | 50s | F | Linked to a group trip to New York |
| 175 | Wellington | 50s | F | Linked to a group trip to New York |
| 174 | Marlborough | 80s | M | Details to come |
| 173 | Bay of Plenty | 60s | F | Details to come |
| 172 | Waitemata | Teens | F | Details to come |
| 171 | Auckland | 30s | F | Details to come |
| 170 | Auckland | 20s | F | Details to come |
| 169 | Auckland | 30s | M | Details to come |
| 168 | Auckland | 50s | M | Details to come |
| 167 | Auckland | 30s | F | Details to come |
| 166 | Auckland | 20s | M | Details to come |
| 165 | Auckland | 20s | F | Details to come |
| 164 | Auckland | 30s | M | Details to come |
| 163 | Auckland | 30s | F | Details to come |
| 162 | Auckland | 50s | F | Details to come |
| 161 | Auckland | 20s | F | Details to come |
| 160 | Auckland | 40s | M | Details to come |
| 159 | Auckland | 20s | M | Details to come |
| 158 | Dunedin | 20s | F | Details to come |
| 157 | Canterbury | 50s | F | Details to come |
| 156 | Wanaka | 20s | M | Details to come |
| 155 | Queenstown | 30s | F | Details to come |
| 154 | Waitemata | 60s | F | Details to come |
| 153 | Auckland | Teens | F | Details to come |
| 152 | Dunedin | 20s | F | London via Dubai to Auckland on 21 March – Flight EK448, Auckland to Dunedin on 23 March flight NZ677 |
| 151 | Wellington | 50s | M | Linked to a group trip to New York. Houston to Auckland on 20 March – Flight NZ0029, Auckland to Wellington on 20 March – Flight NZ0407 |
| 150 | Hamilton | 30s | F | Dubai to Auckland on 22 March – Flight EK448, Auckland to Rotorua on 23 March – Flight NZ8155 |
| 149 | Hamilton | 40s | F | Under Investigation |
| 148 | Christchurch | 50s | M | Sydney to Christchurch on 13 March – Flight EK412 |
| 147 | Canterbury | 50s | M | Linked to confirmed case |
| 146 | Christchurch | 20s | F | London via Dubai and Sydney, arrived Christchurch 13 March – flight EK006 |
| 145 | Wellington | 40s | F | Linked to a confirmed case |
| 144 | Hamilton | 50s | F | Under investigation |
| 143 | Christchurch | 20s | F | San Francisco to Auckland, arrived 21 March – flight NZ7, Auckland to Christchurch on 21 March – NZ527 |
Probable cases
| Case | Location | Age | Gender | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | TBC | |||
| 15 | TBC | |||
| 14 | Blenheim | 20s | M | |
| 13 | Wellington Region | Teens | M | |
| 12 | Wellington | 60s | F | |
| 11 | Wellington Region | 60s | M | |
| 10 | Wellington | 80s | M | |
| 9 | Auckland | 50s | M | |
| 8 | Waikato | 50s | F | |
| 7 | Canterbury | Teens | F | |
| 6 | Auckland | 70s | F | Arrived in New Zealand from USA |
| 5 | Auckland | 70s | M | Arrived in Auckland from Qatar |
| 4 | Hamilton | 40s | F | |
| 3 | Dunedin | 50s | F | |
| 2 | Auckland | Teens | F | |
| 1 | Auckland | 50s | Not provided |