Wednesday March 2
Today there are 22,152 new community cases.
Of these, 382 in Northland, 13,231 in Auckland, 2,139 in Waikato, 1,270 in Bay of Plenty, 415 in Lakes, 273 in Hawke’s Bay, 367 in MidCentral, 56 in Whanganui, 261 in Taranaki, 137 in Tairāwhiti, 91 in Wairarapa, 1,115 in Capital and Coast, 473 in Hutt Valley, 272 in Nelson Marlborough, 1,033 in Canterbury, 36 in South Canterbury, 578 in Southern, 15 in West Coast and 8 are in unknown locations.
More than 80 percent of today’s community cases were detected by a Rapid Antigen Test.
Hospitalisations
There are now 405 people in hospital. Of these, 10 people are in ICU.
There are 123,836 active community cases. These cases were identified in the past 21 days and not yet classified as recovered.
Booster doses and tests
Yesterday, 18,970 booster doses were administered. 60 percent of eligible Māori across the motu have now received a booster dose.
In the last 24 hours there have been 20,086 PCR tests.
There have been 7.7 million Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT) in the last 7 days.
Click here for a list of updated locations of interest.
Top image: Covid-19 testing station Photo: Re:News
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