We are at Level 3 of New Zealand’s four-level COVID-19 alert system.
New Zealand moved to Alert Level 3 at 11:59pm on Monday 27 April.
We will stay in Alert Level 3 for two weeks, before Cabinet reviews how we are tracking and makes further decisions on 11 May.
At Alert Level 3 we must be vigilant. We can keep working together to unite against COVID-19 by sticking to the rules.
Government COVID-19 Response Briefing
The All of Government COVID-19 National Response will provide updates at 1.00 pm and 1.30 pm today.
1.00 pm update
Speaker:
- Dr Ashley Bloomfield, Director-General of Health
1.30 pm update
Speaker:
- Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
Ministry of Health Update:
- 3 news cases, 2 confirmed and 1 probable case
- Total 1472 cases
- No additional deaths
- 1124 total confirmed cases that is reported to WHO
- Total 126,066 total tests so far.
- 1214 now reported as recovered, so again, more people recovered than actually reported as infected to WHO.
- Physical distancing imperative
- Lots of double-speak, “We haven’t eliminated it, we haven’t eradicated it,” Bloomfield says.’We have achieved a kind of point of “elimination” where we have a very low number of cases that are completely controlled and can be traced.
PM Update:
- PM speechifying again, lots of slogans, vocal fry
- Quoting the pink-haired loon who pushed fake news about Donald Trump
- These pre-written speeches are nauseating
- Talking about trying to restart the economy after her plans wrecked it
- Starting to realise the damage she’s caused.
- No sure what point there was the PM showing up, unless she is just campaigning
- Carmel Sepuloni continuing the speechifying
- Talking about their expansion of welfare
- Apparently the Ministry of Social Development knows what busineeses want, who knew?
- “We need to act quickly to keep New Zealand working”…really? if you hadn’t shut down the economy we wouldn’t have this problem
- Total waste of time having these two there today
- PM talking up Taiwan…ahem…WHO refuses to recognise them for political reasons
Yesterday’s details.
- 1 new death, St Margaret’s member.
- Total deaths now 19
- 5 news cases, 1 confirmed, 4 probable
- 3 linked to St Margaret’s cluster
- 1469 total cases
- 6 reclassified, so the current total 1469 a net reduction of 1
- The total confirmed cases number is 1122, which is the number NZ reports internationally.
- 123,920 total tests
- 1180 recovered…so more recovered than actually reported to WHO, shows ridiculous situation of recovered
| Total | Change in last 24 hours | |
|---|---|---|
| Number of confirmed cases in New Zealand | 1,124 | 2 |
| Number of probable cases | 348 | 1 |
| Number of confirmed and probable cases | 1,472 | 3 |
| Number of cases currently in hospital | 9 | 2 |
| Number of recovered cases | 1,214 | 34 |
| Number of deaths | 19 | 0 |
About the data:
- Source: This is provisional information taken daily at 9am from a live database, EpiSurv (ESR) and is likely to change as more details are provided about individual cases.
- Confirmed cases are people that have had a positive laboratory test. For more details please refer to Case definition of COVID-19 infection.
- A probable case is one without a positive laboratory result, but which is treated like a confirmed case based on its exposure history and clinical symptoms.
- Recovered cases are people who had the virus, are at least 10 days since onset and have not exhibited symptoms for 48 hours, and have been cleared by the health professional responsible for their monitoring.
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
Download the Map of confirmed and probable cases by DHB (PDF, 282 KB).
Total cases by Region
| DHB | Active | Recovered | Deceased | Total | Change in last 24 hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auckland | 22 | 151 | 173 | -2 | |
| Bay of Plenty | 10 | 37 | 47 | 0 | |
| Canterbury | 43 | 109 | 10 | 162 | 0 |
| Capital and Coast | 9 | 84 | 2 | 95 | 0 |
| Counties Manukau | 16 | 108 | 124 | 2 | |
| Hawke’s Bay | 14 | 30 | 44 | 1 | |
| Hutt Valley | 4 | 16 | 20 | 0 | |
| Lakes | 2 | 14 | 16 | 0 | |
| Mid Central | 1 | 30 | 31 | 0 | |
| Nelson Marlborough | 4 | 44 | 48 | 0 | |
| Northland | 6 | 22 | 28 | 0 | |
| South Canterbury | 8 | 9 | 17 | 1 | |
| Southern | 14 | 200 | 2 | 216 | 0 |
| Tairawhiti | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | |
| Taranaki | 4 | 12 | 16 | 0 | |
| Waikato | 43 | 142 | 1 | 186 | 0 |
| Wairarapa | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0 | |
| Waitemata | 39 | 181 | 3 | 223 | 1 |
| West Coast | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Whanganui | 0 | 9 | 9 | 0 | |
| Total | 239 | 1,214 | 19 | 1,472 | 3 |
Total cases in hospital by DHB
| DHB | Total cases |
|---|---|
| Auckland | 4 |
| Bay of Plenty | 1 |
| Counties Manukau (Middlemore) | 1 |
| South Canterbury | 1 |
| Waitemat? | 2 |
| Total | 9 |
Note: One of the nine in hospital is in ICU as at 8:30am 28 April 2020
The above count excludes the 4 patients in Waitakere Hospital who were moved from St Margaret’s aged residential care facility.
Epidemic Curve
Total Cases by Age and Gender
| Age Group | Active | Recovered | Deceased | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 to 9 | 14 | 20 | 34 | |
| 10 to 19 | 11 | 105 | 116 | |
| 20 to 29 | 27 | 326 | 353 | |
| 30 to 39 | 41 | 180 | 221 | |
| 40 to 49 | 41 | 175 | 216 | |
| 50 to 59 | 36 | 208 | 244 | |
| 60 to 69 | 29 | 142 | 2 | 173 |
| 70+ | 40 | 58 | 17 | 115 |
| Total | 239 | 1214 | 19 | 1472 |
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
| Transmission type | % of cases |
|---|---|
| Imported cases | 39% |
| Imported related cases | 33% |
| Locally acquired cases, epidemiologically linked | 23% |
| Locally acquired cases, unknown source | 4% |
| Source under investigation | 2% |
Source: ESR EpiSurv extract as at 09:00 28 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.
- Imported 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
| Tests | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| Total tested yesterday | 2,146 | 27 April 2020 |
| 7-day rolling average | 5,223 | 21 April to 27 April 2020 |
| Total tested to date | 126,066 | 22 January to 27 April 2020 |
| Supplies in stock | 66,322 | 28 April 2020 |
View a detailed break down of testing by region.
COVID-19 – tests by day and cumulative
| Date | Tests per day | Total tests (cumulative) |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Jan – 8 Mar | 300 | |
| 9-Mar | 12 | 312 |
| 10-Mar | 89 | 401 |
| 11-Mar | 83 | 484 |
| 12-Mar | 31 | 515 |
| 13-Mar | 35 | 550 |
| 14-Mar | 34 | 584 |
| 15-Mar | 142 | 726 |
| 16-Mar | 325 | 1051 |
| 17-Mar | 659 | 1710 |
| 18-Mar | 1209 | 2919 |
| 19-Mar | 1291 | 4210 |
| 20-Mar | 1554 | 5764 |
| 21-Mar | 1176 | 6940 |
| 22-Mar | 1256 | 8196 |
| 23-Mar | 1050 | 9246 |
| 24-Mar | 1544 | 10790 |
| 25-Mar | 2592 | 13382 |
| 26-Mar | 2117 | 15499 |
| 27-Mar | 2067 | 17566 |
| 28-Mar | 1809 | 19375 |
| 29-Mar | 918 | 20293 |
| 30-Mar | 1391 | 21684 |
| 31-Mar | 2093 | 23777 |
| 1-Apr | 2562 | 26339 |
| 2-Apr | 3446 | 29785 |
| 3-Apr | 3631 | 33416 |
| 4-Apr | 3093 | 36509 |
| 5-Apr | 3709 | 40218 |
| 6-Apr | 2908 | 43126 |
| 7-Apr | 4049 | 47175 |
| 8-Apr | 3990 | 51165 |
| 9-Apr | 4520 | 55685 |
| 10-Apr | 3061 | 58746 |
| 11-Apr | 2421 | 61167 |
| 12-Apr | 1660 | 62827 |
| 13-Apr | 1572 | 64399 |
| 14-Apr | 2100 | 66499 |
| 15-Apr | 3661 | 70160 |
| 16-Apr | 4241 | 74401 |
| 17-Apr | 4677 | 79078 |
| 18-Apr | 4146 | 83224 |
| 19-Apr | 3081 | 86305 |
| 20-Apr | 3203 | 89508 |
| 21-Apr | 5289 | 94797 |
| 22-Apr | 6480 | 101277 |
| 23-Apr | 6961 | 108238 |
| 24-Apr | 6777 | 115015 |
| 25-Apr | 5966 | 120981 |
| 26-Apr | 2939 | 123920 |
| 27-Apr | 2146 | 126066 |
Note: Two sets of cumulative test data have been reconciled to give cumulative total from 22 January 2020 when testing began.