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- Everyone must now stay home, except those providing essential services.
- Only make physical contact with those that you live with.
Government COVID-19 Response Briefing
The All of Government COVID-19 National Response will provide an update at 1.00 pm today.
Speakers:
- Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
- Dr Ashley Bloomfield, Director-General of Health
Ministry of Health Update:
- 89 new cases. 48 of these are confirmed and 41 are probable.
- 156 cases who have recovered from Covid-19. The total combined is now 1039.
- 15 people in Hospital with Covid-19 with three in intensive care units. That’s two more than yesterday
- 3093 tests processed yesterday
- Still unbelievably claiming one per cent of the cases are confirmed to be community transmission. But 18 per cent are still being investigated. The rest have strong links to overseas travel.
- Two new clusters have emerged (groupings of more than ten linked cases). This brings the total to 13. But still claiming small amount of community spread.
Prime Minister Briefing:
- PM condescendingly lecturing
- Claiming great success so far
- Tanking the economy is now apparently the best thing for the economy!
- Now talking about “going after” people
- Snitch culture expanding
- Now calling people idiots
- Snippy about David Clark
- Still has confidence, somehow
- David Clark on the naughty stool. PM talking like a school ma’am
Yesterday’s details.
- 52 new and 30 probable cases, 82 total new
- 950 total cases
- 10 in hospital, 1 in ICU
- 127 people have “recovered”.
- 2264 rolling seven day average for testing, 3631 tests completed yesterday
- 33,116 total tests
COVID-19 – current cases
| Total to date | New in last 24 hours | |
|---|---|---|
| Number of confirmed cases in New Zealand | 872 | 48 |
| Number of probable cases | 167 | 41 |
| Number of confirmed and probable cases | 1,039 | 89 |
| Number of cases in hospital | 15 | |
| Number of recovered cases | 156 | 29 |
| Number of deaths | 1 |
View full details of the confirmed cases.
View details of significant COVID-19 clusters.
View interactive map and dashboard.
Confirmed and probable cases by DHB
Total cases by DHB in hospital
| DHB | Number of cases | Change in last 24 hours |
|---|---|---|
| Auckland | 137 | 10 |
| Bay of Plenty | 31 | 1 |
| Canterbury | 86 | 20 |
| Capital and Coast | 80 | 7 |
| Counties Manukau | 77 | 7 |
| Hawke’s Bay | 29 | 0 |
| Hutt Valley | 18 | 0 |
| Lakes | 12 | 1 |
| MidCentral | 22 | 1 |
| Nelson Marlborough | 35 | 3 |
| Northland | 16 | 3 |
| South Canterbury | 10 | 0 |
| Southern | 160 | 9 |
| Tair?whiti | 1 | 0 |
| Taranaki | 14 | 0 |
| Waikato | 146 | 10 |
| Wairarapa | 8 | 0 |
| Waitemata | 145 | 16 |
| West Coast | 4 | 0 |
| Whanganui | 8 | 1 |
| Total | 1039 | 82 |
Download the Map of confirmed and probable cases by DHB (PDF, 282 KB).
Total cases in hospital by DHB
| DHB | Total cases |
|---|---|
| Auckland | 1 |
| Bay of Plenty | 1 |
| Capital & Coast | 3 |
| Counties Manukau | 2 |
| Nelson Marlborough | 1 |
| Southern | 1 |
| Tairawhiti | 1 |
| Taranaki | 1 |
| Waikato | 2 |
| Waitemata | 1 |
| West Coast | 1 |
| Total | 15 |
Epidemic Curve
Total Cases by Age and Gender
Ethnicity percentages of all cases
Transmission
This information refers to the 950 confirmed and probable cases as at 9.00 am 5 April 2020.
| Transmission type | % of cases |
|---|---|
| Recent overseas travel | 45% |
| Contact with known case | 36% |
| Community transmission | 1% |
| Source under investigation | 18% |
Source: ESR EpiSurv extract as at 09:00 4 April 2020
Lab testing
| Lab Testing | Tests | % Difference | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily total | 3,093 | TBC | 4 April 2020 |
| 7-day rolling average | 2,448 | 8% | 29 March to 4 April 2020 |
| Total tested to date | 36,209 | 9% | 9 March to 4 April 2020 |
| Test capacity | 4,613 | TBC | 5 April 2020 |
| Supplies in stock | 41,813 | 68% | 5 April 2020 |
Source: ESR EpiSurv extract as at 09:00 5 April 2020.
Note: 1 new laboratory – Pathlab Tauranga – started testing on 4 April 2020 (11 tested).