Coronavirus: New Zealand has 207 confirmed new cases of COVID-19 in the community

New Zealand has 207 new cases of Covid-19 in the community and sadly one death, reports the Ministry of Health.

The death is of a woman in her 90s who died in North Shore Hospital last night. The woman had a number of underlying health conditions and had COVID-19.

Of today's new cases, 192 are in Auckland, four are in the Lakes District, two are in Tararua, two are in Northland and seven are in Waikato.

Today a total of 2,036 cases are now reported as having recovered from Covid-19.

That brings the total number of active cases in the community to 3,542 (the total number of cases in this outbreak is now 5,578).

The total number of cases in Auckland are 5,266 (1,924 of whom have recovered), 232 in Waikato (82 of whom have recovered), 44 cases in Northland (nine of whom have recovered), six active cases in Taranaki, five active cases in the Lakes District, two active cases in Tararua and four cases in Canterbury (three of whom have recovered).

There are 90 people in hospital, including seven patients in intensive care.

Auckland and parts of Waikato (Raglan, Te Kauwhata, Ngaruawahia, Hamilton city, Huntly, Te Kuiti, Waipa, Ōtorohanga, Te Awamutu, Karapiro and Cambridge) are currently at alert level 3.

Auckland and Waikato have seen an easing of restrictions and are now at level 3 step 2.

The rest of the country is at alert level 2.

Previously, the Prime Minister revealed New Zealand will move into a new way of managing Covid-19 when District Health Boards have 90 per cent of their eligible populations vaccinated.

The traffic light system will use vaccine certificates to allow complying businesses to continue to operate at all times - and proposes to end nationwide lockdowns.

New Zealand has had 8,331 confirmed cases since the pandemic began last year and 34 deaths.