Aotearoa New Zealand is well over halfway to the government’s “Super Saturday” day-long goal of 100,000 vaccine doses today, with more than 70,000 doses given out by 1pm.
By 2.39pm, there had been a total of 90,616 doses across the country, according to the Ministry of Health.
Vaccine clinics are open across the country as health workers target a 90 percent vaccination milestone.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield were going around the Wellington region, as they joined the drive to get people vaccinated.
The ministry reported 41 new community cases of covid-19 in New Zealand today.
There was no media conference today. In a statement, the ministry said there were also two new cases in managed isolation.
It said 20 of the community cases were linked, and 21 remained unlinked with investigations continuing.
There were 124 unlinked cases from the past 14 days.
One of today’s new cases was in Waikato. The ministry said the case was a household member of two existing cases and was already in a quarantine facility in Auckland.
There are now 31 people in hospital, all in Auckland, including six in intensive care.
There were 65 new cases yesterday.
There have now been 1895 cases in the current community outbreak and 4580 since the pandemic began.
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