Coronavirus: For the second day in a row New Zealand has no new cases of COVID-19

Publish Date
Sunday, 24 May 2020, 12:58PM

Today New Zealand has no new cases of COVID-19 the Ministry of Health has reported.

The number of new cases this week has been very low.

There was just one case reported on Friday and no new cases for the three days before that.

The total number of confirmed and probable cases since the pandemic began sits at 1,504.

The total of confirmed cases is 1,154.

There are no new deaths today.

The death toll remains at 21, including 12 from the Rosewood cluster.

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A total of 1,456 people reported as having recovered from Covid-19 - an increase of one on yesterday.

This means 97 per cent of all confirmed and probable cases are now recovered.

There are just 27 people left in New Zealand with a known active infection, only one of which is in hospital.

Last week Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern revealed that the Government intends to continue to phase in more activity in alert level 2.

Ardern said Covid-19 is still in the community and the country needs to be careful as it heads down the alert levels.

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