Coronavirus: New Zealand has 126 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the community

New Zealand has 126 new cases of Covid-19 in the community, reports the Ministry of Health.

Of today's new cases, 107 are in Auckland, while one is in Northland and 18 are in Waikato - taking the total number of cases in Waikato to 141 (38 of whom have recovered).

67 of these new cases are household or close contacts of existing cases.

Today a total of 1,704 cases are now reported as having recovered from Covid-19.

That brings the total number of active cases in the community to 1,930 (the total number of cases in this outbreak is now 3,634).

There are now 14 cases in Northland (three of whom have recovered) and four active cases in Christchurch.

There are 49 people in hospital, including three patients in intensive care.

Auckland and parts of Waikato (Raglan, Te Kauwhata, Ngaruawahia, Hamilton city, Huntly, Te Kuiti, Waipa, Ōtorohanga, Te Awamutu, Karapiro and Cambridge) are currently at alert level 3.

Waikato will see an easing of restrictions at 11.59pm tonight as it moves to level 3 step 2.

While Auckland will "step down" at 11.59pm on Tuesday 9 November.

The rest of the country is at alert level 2.

Last week, the Prime Minister revealed New Zealand will move into a new way of managing Covid-19 when District Health Boards have 90 per cent of their eligible populations vaccinated.

The traffic light system will use vaccine certificates to allow complying businesses to continue to operate at all times - and proposes to end nationwide lockdowns.

New Zealand has had 6,362 confirmed cases since the pandemic began last year and 28 deaths.