There are 23 new Covid-19 cases in the community on Wednesday, all of which are in Auckland, Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield has confirmed.
Bloomfield gave the updated figures at the 1pm briefing alongside Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins in Wellington.
The total number of cases in the Delta outbreak is now 1108, of which 835 have now recovered while New Zealand's total number of cases since the pandemic began is 3763.
Bloomfield added there is one case from the border.
Bloomfield said all but one of Wednesday's cases have been epidemiologically linked to the outbreak. Eleven of these cases are household contacts including six people from one household.
The Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield made the announcement in Wellington. (Source: Other)
The other case was being followed-up by contact tracers while yesterday's unlinked case remained unlinked and was still being investigated as well.
The Ministry of Health currently has 1282 active contacts being managed of which 93 per cent have been contacted to confirm testing and isolation requirements.
There are currently 13 cases in hospital, all in the Auckland region; two of the cases are in intensive care.
A further 53,721 vaccines were administered yesterday, taking the country's total jabs to date to 4,817,214, 3,146,149 of which are first doses.
Hipkins noted Auckland had now reached 80 per cent vaccinated rate Wednesday as the City of Sails moved to Alert Level 3 to continue its response to the Delta outbreak.
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