There are 102 new Covid-19 cases in the community on Wednesday - 94 in Auckland and eight in Waikato - Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield has confirmed.
Bloomfield gave the updated figures at the 1pm briefing alongside Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson in Wellington.
The total number of cases in this Delta outbreak is now 2260 of which 1390 have recovered.
Of the 102 new cases, 40 of the cases are yet to be linked to a current case while 20 of Tuesday’s 60 cases remain unlinked from Auckland.
The Ministry of Health currently has 2143 contacts linked to this outbreak, of which 83 per cent have been contacted and 77 per cent have received at least one test.
There are currently 46 cases in hospitals; 14 in Middlemore Hospital, 24 in Auckland Hospital and seven in North Shore Hospital. The other case is in Waikato Hospital. Seven of those cases are in ICU or HDU.
Dr Ashley Bloomfield said there are 46 cases in hospital currently of which seven are in ICU or HDU. (Source: Other)
On Wednesday, 26,669 tests for Covid-19 were processed throughout the country, including 12,759 from Auckland.
In total there has been more than 3.8 million tests for the virus processed since the pandemic began.
Bloomfield said testing across Auckland continued to focus on suburbs with "higher positivity rates where the risk of unidentified cases is higher".
"People with symptoms, even if they are mild symptoms, and even if they are vaccinated, in New Lynn and the North Shore suburbs of Rosedale, Redvale, and Bayswater should get tested as soon as possible, and isolate until they receive a negative result," Bloomfield said.
"This testing will help to provide assurance that any undetected spread of Covid-19 in these communities is identified as quickly as possible."
Currently health officials are supporting 151 Covid-19 cases in the community, across 87 households, to safely isolate at home.
On vaccinations, 43,087 doses were administered on Wednesday, made up of 10,410 first doses and 32,677 second doses.
More than 6.4 million doses have been administered in New Zealand to date.
There were also two new Covid-19 cases found at the border on Thursday.
There were no unexpected Covid-19 detections in wastewater samples to report on Thursday.
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