Number of active cases, recoveries in South revealed

The Ministry of Health has revealed the number of active and recovered cases of Covid-19 in the Southern district.

 

This afternoon, it said there were  213 confirmed or probable cases of Covid-19 in the South. This means there were no new cases in the South in the last 24-hour reporting period.

There are 74 active cases of Covid-19 in the Southern District Health Board area and 139 recoveries. However, in a statement later in the day the SDHB said 130 people had recovered to date.

Source: Southern DHB
Source: Southern DHB

Meanwhile, the Ministry also revealed there were three new confirmed or probable cases of the virus linked to the Bluff wedding cluster. This brings the total number of cases linked to the cluster to 92.

This makes it the biggest cluster in the country alongside the Marist College cluster in Auckland, which also has 92 cases linked to it.

There are still no new cases linked to the cluster from the World Hereford Conference in Queenstown, which has 33 cases.

Image: Ministry of Health
Image: Ministry of Health

Director-General of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said today there are 15 new confirmed and probable cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand.

Of those, six are confirmed cases and nine are probable cases. There are no further deaths, he said. The toll stands at nine.

There were 770 total recoveries from the virus, which was up by 42 since yesterday.

The total number of confirmed and probable cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand since the outbreak began is now at 1401.

Dr Bloomfield said there were 12 people in hospital with the virus and three were in intensive care.

Two of the people in ICUs were in a critical condition; one of them is in Dunedin Hospital.

An Invercargill man in his 70s whose death is being investigated to see if he is the first New Zealander to die at home from Covid-19, has links to the Bluff wedding cluster, it was confirmed today.

Dr Bloomfield said a post-mortem on the man was being carried out and he was "linked to the Bluff wedding; not directly, but indirectly.''

In a statement today, the Southern District Health Board said it had been testing widely for several weeks, and had among the highest rates of testing in the country.

From March 13 to April 15, the DHB had performed 5326 tests and tested 5018 individuals (some individuals have both a swab and a sputum taken at the same time, and some patients have been tested on multiple occasions).

The area has the highest rate of confirmed Covid-19 cases per capita in New Zealand.

About one third of these have been related to two significant clusters in our community - the Bluff wedding and World Hereford Conference in Queenstown. The other main source of cases was overseas travel, the SDHB said.

"Now, most of our cases are from the infection spreading from individuals to close contacts, increasingly those with whom they are sharing their bubbles."
 

 

Comments

I'd like to know how many cases in Dunedin have recovered.

 

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