The BFD | COVID-19 Update: 24 April 2020

We are at Level 4 of New Zealand’s four-level COVID-19 alert system. It is likely Level 4 measures will stay in place for a number of weeks. More information on alert levels.

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:

Finance Minister Grant Robertson
Director of Public Health Dr Caroline McElnay

Ministry of Health Update:

5 new cases, 2 confirmed, 3 probable
1456 total cases
Another death, from Rosewood cluster, man in his 60s
10th from Rosewood cluster to die
1095 recovered, increase of 30
8 in hospital, 1 in ICU
16 significant clusters
6961 tested completed yesterday
108,238 total tests

Finance Minister Briefing:

Wage subsidy scheme: Robertson says all companies will need to stand by their applications when the auditors come, and if circumstances have changed and the money should be returned, they should get hold of MSD.
Wage subsidy: being paid back, Robertson says the audit team is looking at the applications. Anyone unsure should get in touch.
Demand for food parcels has increased. Robertson says: “I do recognise that for some New Zealanders this is a tough time” but he said the help was there.
Robertson says supporting local businesses will make a difference to small business owners
Level 3 is still a restrictive environment – stay in your bubble, stay at home if you can, keep it local – these things will make a difference.

Yesterday’s details:

2 new deaths to report, They were based in Dunedin and Christchurch.
3 new cases
1451 cases, same as yesterday, remains same level because the positive cases may have already been recorded in Uruguay.
101,277 tests processed so far
6480 tests yesterday
8 people in hospital, 1 in ICU
16 significant clusters
Health services under level 3: hospitals remain open for acute care

	Total	Change in last 24 hours
Number of confirmed cases in New Zealand	1,114	2
Number of probable cases	342	3
Number of confirmed and probable cases	1,456	5
Number of cases currently in hospital	8	0
Number of recovered cases	1,095	30
Number of deaths	17	1

Notes:

Note: Three confirmed cases reported yesterday have been reclassified as under investigation to allow checks on whether they were counted in Uruguay’s case total before arrival in New Zealand. This is to prevent double counting by the World Health Organization. We had two new confirmed cases in the past 24 hours, making a total decrease of 1 case today.

View details of confirmed and probable cases.

View details of significant COVID-19 clusters.

View data for testing rates by ethnicity and DHB.

View interactive map and dashboard.

Confirmed and probable cases by DHB

Total cases by DHB in hospital

DHB	Total cases
Auckland	4
Bay of Plenty	1
Counties Manukau (Middlemore)	1
South Canterbury	1
Waitemat?	1
Total	8

Note: One of the 8 in hospital is in ICU as at 9:00am 24 April 2020

The above count excludes the five patients in Waitakere Hospital who have been moved from their aged residential care facility due to staffing issues.

Download the Map of confirmed and probable cases by DHB (PDF, 282 KB).

Total cases in hospital by DHB

DHB	Active	Recovered	Deceased	Total	Change in last 24 hours
Auckland	28	155		183	-3
Bay of Plenty	14	33		47	0
Canterbury	52	97	10	158	1
Capital and Coast	27	66	2	95	0
Counties Manukau	17	96		113	2
Hawke’s Bay	16	26		42	0
Hutt Valley	5	15		20	0
Lakes	2	14		16	0
Mid Central	2	29		31	0
Nelson Marlborough	6	42		48	0
Northland	12	15		27	0
South Canterbury	8	8		16	0
Southern	22	192	2	216	0
Tair?whiti	1	3		4	0
Taranaki	2	12		14	0
Waikato	73	115	1	189	3
Wairarapa	0	8		8	0
Waitemat?	56	158	1	215	3
West Coast	0	4	1	5	0
Whanganui	2	7		9	0
Total	345	1095	17	1456	6

Epidemic Curve

Total Cases by Age and Gender

Age Group	Active	Recovered	Deceased	Total
0 to 9	20	14		34
10 to 19	18	96		114
20 to 29	47	306		353
30 to 39	58	161		219
40 to 49	49	163		212
50 to 59	62	177		239
60 to 69	42	128	2	171
70+	49	50	15	114
Total	344	1095	17	1456

Ethnicity percentages of all cases

Note: A person who identifies with more than one ethnic group is allocated to a single ethnic group in the following order of priority: Maori, Pacific, Asian and European/Other.

For a detailed break down of ethnicity and DHB region testing see Testing by region.

Transmission

Imported cases	39%
Imported related cases	41%
Locally acquired cases, epidemiologically linked	14%
Locally acquired cases, unknown source	4%
Source under investigation	2%

Source: ESR EpiSurv extract as at 09:00 24 April 2020

Please note that ESR has changed the source definitions, cases have been classified by source of infection as follows:

Imported cases: Cases with a reported history of international travel within 14 days of onset.
Import related cases: Cases that have a reported link (close contact or epidemiological link) to an imported/overseas acquired case.
Locally acquired cases, epidemiologically linked: Cases that have a reported link (close contact or other epidemiological link) to a locally acquired case with unknown source.
Locally acquired cases, unknown source: Cases that have no reported history of international travel within 14 days of onset and no recorded epidemiological link to a source case.
Source of infection remains under investigation whereby source of infection could not be classified due to incomplete EpiSurv case report forms. These cases are removed from further analyses in the sections below.

Lab testing and capacity

Lab Testing	Tests	Date
Total tested yesterday	6,961	23 April 2020
7-day rolling average	4,834	16 April to 23 April 2020
Total tested to date	108,238	22 January to 23 April 2020
Supplies in stock	77,129	24 April 2020