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 an update at 1.00 pm today.
Speakers:
- Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
- Dr Ashley Bloomfield, Director-General of Health
Ministry of Health Update:
- 2 new cases, 1 confirmed and 1 probable case
- Total 1474 cases
- No additional deaths
- 1126 total confirmed cases that is reported to WHO
- 6 in hospital, none in intensive care
- Total 128,073 total tests so far.
- 1229 now reported as recovered, still more rec
- 25 people have tested positive for Covid-19 while being in quarantine – these are people who have arrived back in NZ.
- Bloomfield under attack for his desire to prevent Kiwis returning home.
- Ardern defending him
- Claiming great success despite his desire for more draconian measures
- Ardern really trying hard to defend Bloomfield
PM Update:
- PM missing the limelight, so continuing briefings
- Sloganeering again
- More prosecutions as people ignore Level 3
- Snitch culture alive and well as people snitch on business. More than 700 narcs out there.
- Full of jargon, “reaching out”
- 7,713 children attended an ECE (4%) and 11,836 attended a school (1%)
- Talking about the small businesses she’s wrecked
- Government cannot currently impose a rent reduction.
- Says some landlords are not taking the advice to renegotiate leases, while some tenants are refusing to pay despite having resources.
- Ardern says the Government is working on some kind of change where commercial landlords would have to reconsider rent over the Covid-19 period. Yet again attacking landlords.
- In regards to her phone call with the Queen, Ardern says her Majesty was eager to touch base and hear how NZ was going.
- Still hasn’t mentioned her call with Bibi Netanyahu
Yesterday’s details.
- 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.
| Total | Change in last 24 hours | |
|---|---|---|
| Number of confirmed cases in New Zealand | 1,126 | 2 |
| Number of probable cases | 348 | 0 |
| Number of confirmed and probable cases | 1,474 | 2 |
| Number of cases currently in hospital | 6 | -3 |
| Number of recovered cases | 1,229 | 15 |
| 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 | 150 | 172 | -1 | |
| Bay of Plenty | 10 | 37 | 47 | 0 | |
| Canterbury | 41 | 111 | 10 | 162 | 0 |
| Capital and Coast | 9 | 84 | 2 | 95 | 0 |
| Counties Manukau | 16 | 110 | 126 | 2 | |
| Hawke’s Bay | 14 | 30 | 44 | 0 | |
| Hutt Valley | 4 | 16 | 20 | 0 | |
| Lakes | 2 | 14 | 16 | 0 | |
| Mid Central | 1 | 30 | 31 | 0 | |
| Nelson Marlborough | 3 | 45 | 48 | 0 | |
| Northland | 6 | 22 | 28 | 0 | |
| South Canterbury | 6 | 11 | 17 | 0 | |
| Southern | 13 | 201 | 2 | 216 | 0 |
| Tairawhiti | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | |
| Taranaki | 3 | 13 | 16 | 0 | |
| Waikato | 40 | 146 | 1 | 187 | 1 |
| Wairarapa | 0 | 8 | 8 | 0 | |
| Waitemata | 36 | 184 | 3 | 223 | 0 |
| West Coast | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Whanganui | 0 | 9 | 9 | 0 | |
| Total | 226 | 1229 | 19 | 1474 | 2 |
Total cases in hospital by DHB
| DHB | Total cases |
|---|---|
| Auckland | 3 |
| Bay of Plenty | 1 |
| South Canterbury | 1 |
| Waitemat? | 1 |
| Total | 6 |
Note: None are in ICU as at 8:30am 29 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 | 21 | 35 | |
| 10 to 19 | 10 | 106 | 116 | |
| 20 to 29 | 25 | 328 | 353 | |
| 30 to 39 | 36 | 185 | 221 | |
| 40 to 49 | 42 | 175 | 217 | |
| 50 to 59 | 34 | 210 | 244 | |
| 60 to 69 | 29 | 142 | 2 | 173 |
| 70+ | 36 | 62 | 17 | 115 |
| Total | 226 | 1229 | 19 | 1474 |
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 | 32% |
| Locally acquired cases, epidemiologically linked | 24% |
| Locally acquired cases, unknown source | 4% |
| Source under investigation | 2% |
Source: ESR EpiSurv extract as at 09:00 29 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 | 2,637 | 28 April 2020 |
| 7-day rolling average | 4,844 | 22 April to 28 April 2020 |
| Total tested to date | 128,703 | 22 January to 28 April 2020 |
| Supplies in stock | 64,442 | 29 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 |
| 28-Apr | 2637 | 128703 |
Note: Two sets of cumulative test data have been reconciled to give cumulative total from 22 January 2020 when testing began.