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134 new cases of Covid-19

Melanie Earley

There are 134 new cases of Covid-19 in the Delta community outbreak.

The new community cases are in Auckland (116), Waikato (eight), Bay of Plenty (nine) and Northland (one). In an update yesterday the Ministry of Health also announced two new cases in the NelsonMarlborough region.

It brings the total number of cases in Nelson-Marlborough to three, but because of a ‘‘technical error’’, these cases will be officially included in today’s figures.

There are 89 people in hospital with Covid-19, down from 93 on Monday, including nine in intensive care or highdependency care units. Most are in hospitals across the Auckland region, but there are four Covid-positive patients in hospital in Waikato and Rotorua.

Among those in hospital in the Northern Region wards (Auckland), 56 cases (67 per cent) are not vaccinated or are under 12 years old, so are too young to be eligible.

On Monday, there were 182 new cases of the virus to report.

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