Coronavirus: New Zealand has another 20 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the community

Publish Date
Sunday, 12 September 2021, 1:05PM

New Zealand has 20 new cases of COVID-19 in the community, says Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield.

All of the new cases are in Auckland.

Today a total of 352 cases are now reported as having recovered from Covid-19.

That brings the total number of active cases in the community to 570 (the total number of cases in this outbreak is now 922).

There are 18 people in hospital, including four patients in intensive care.

New Zealand is now at alert level 2.

Auckland will remain at alert level 4 until 11.59pm on Tuesday 14 September.

Cabinet will meet tomorrow to reassess the alert levels for the whole country, including Auckland.

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