There are 15 new community cases of Covid-19, Dr Ashley Bloomfield has revealed.
There are no unlinked cases today. All of these cases are known household contacts, he said.
There are 22 people with Covid-19 in hospital and 4 are in ICU.
The total number of cases in the outbreak is now 970. There are only 10 cases which have not yet been linked.
There were 9279 Covid tests in the last 24 hours.
One sample from wastewater testing in Pukekohe has returned a positive result, but this could be due to recovered cases leaving MIQ, Dr Bloomfield said.
There have been 4,380,953 doses of the vaccine administered; 2,897,385 first doses and 1,483,568 second doses.
Yesterday 54,877 doses were administered of these 34,145 were first doses and 20,732 were second doses.
It comes as testing and vaccinations in Auckland ramp up after level 4 restrictions were extended in the region another week to stamp out any remaining community cases.
Bloomfield said the priority was on testing as many people as possible from the Auckland suburbs of Massey, Favona, Papatoetoe, Otara and Manurewa, Bloomfield said.
Families with children are encouraged to get tested together.
Vaccine buses
The first rollout of portable "Mr Whippy-style" vaccine buses will be rolled out in Auckland on Thursday - expanding the fleet from 6 to 12 in the coming weeks, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.
Ardern said people can suggest names for the new mobile vaccine buses, but said: "let's rule out Bussy McBus Face".
Ardern said officials are considering any ideas about incentives that may help improve vaccination rates.
There is capacity for 220,000 vaccines to be administered in Auckland this week, Ardern said.
It's so important to get vaccinated as soon as possible, Ardern said. There are around 90,000 available spaces at Book My Vaccine this week, she said. More than 100 GPs and 30 pharmacies administering vaccines in Auckland.
Some park and ride vaccine centres can carry out more than 5,000 vaccines in a day, Ardern said.
Asked about whether or not the vaccine rollout was delayed because of costs, Ardern said this wasn't the case.
"At no point for instance did we say, we will delay ordering...so it will be cheaper," she said.
The highest planned rates of vaccination were around the 50,000 a day mark before the Delta outbreak, and "we have the capacity to go much, much higher than that", Ardern said.
She urged New Zealanders to get vaccinated as soon as possible.
Ardern said they are working hard for disabled people to be vaccinated and the clinic at Papakura Marae is open all week. Bookings aren't required there.
Surveillance testing of essential workers continues across Auckland, including people in healthcare, emergency services, transport workers and supermarket workers.
More than 15,000 essential workers have been tested across Auckland - and none returned positive results.
On Monday level 2 was also extended for the rest of the country until next Tuesday, with Ardern stating some level of restrictions were needed while there was an active outbreak in Auckland and travel, however limited, remained across the border.
Ardern told The AM Show this morning officials did not intend to continue to use the lockdowns system in the long-term fight against Covid.
She pointed out that New Zealand had fewer days where people had been given stay-at-home orders than most of the countries we compared ourselves to.
The key to stopping using lockdowns was to make sure everyone was vaccinated.
"We used them in the past because we didn't have that tool."
Despite saying we need as many people vaccinated as possible, Ardern would not put an exact figure on just how many people need to be vaccinated before lockdowns were no longer needed.
On Monday 33 new community cases were announced, taking the total active in the community to 569. Crucially there remained 17 unlinked or "mystery" cases from the past two weeks.
