COVID-19 Update: 26 April 2020

We are at

of New Zealand’s four-level COVID-19 alert system. It is likely Level 4 measures will stay in place for a number of weeks. More information on alert levels.

• Everyone must now stay home, except those providing essential services.
• Only make physical contact with those that you live with.

Government COVID-19 Response Briefing

There is no live media conference today (26 April 2020).

Today’s media update will be provided by a statement, to be sent this afternoon. COVID-19 case and testing data will be updated when it is available. See Current cases for more information.

The 1pm live media conferences will resume on Monday 27 April.

Today’s Details:

• Nine new cases, four were linked to existing clusters, and five were linked to known confirmed cases
• Total to 1470 cases.
• There were 1,142 cases that had ben reported as recovered
• Seven people were still hospital and that included one person in the ICU in Middlemore.

Yesterday’s details.

• Five new cases
• Four of the cases are linked to existing clusters, and one is still under investigation.
• Another death. A woman in her 70s in Waitakere hospital died last night. She had been transferred from CHT St Margarets Hospital and Rest Home.
• Seven people in hospital, one less than yesterday. This total includes one person in the ICU in Middlemore.
• The combined total of tests undertaken to date are 115,015.

Summary:

• Source: This is provisional information taken daily at 9am from a live database, EpiSurv (ESR) and is likely to change as more details are provided about individual cases.
• Confirmed cases are people that have had a positive laboratory test. For more details please refer to Case definition of COVID-19 infection.
• A probable case is one without a positive laboratory result, but which is treated like a confirmed case based on its exposure history and clinical symptoms.
• Recovered cases are people who had the virus, are at least 10 days since onset and have not exhibited symptoms for 48 hours, and have been cleared by the health professional responsible for their monitoring.

View details of confirmed and probable cases.

View details of significant COVID-19 clusters.

View data for testing rates by ethnicity and DHB.

View interactive map and dashboard.

Confirmed and probable cases by DHB

Download the Map of confirmed and probable cases by DHB (PDF, 282 KB).

Total cases by Region

Total cases in hospital by DHB

Note: One of the seven in hospital is in ICU as at 9:00am 26 April 2020

The above count excludes the four patients in Waitakere Hospital who have been moved from their aged residential care facility.

Epidemic Curve

Total Cases by Age and Gender

Ethnicity percentages of all cases

Note: A person who identifies with more than one ethnic group is allocated to a single ethnic group in the following order of priority: Maori, Pacific, Asian and European/Other.

For a detailed break down of ethnicity and DHB region testing see Testing by region.

Transmission

Source: ESR EpiSurv extract as at 09:00 26 April 2020

Please note that ESR has changed the source definitions, cases have been classified by source of infection as follows:

• Imported cases: Cases with a reported history of international travel within 14 days of onset.
• Imported related cases: Cases that have a reported link (close contact or epidemiological link) to an imported/overseas acquired case.
• Locally acquired cases, epidemiologically linked: Cases that have a reported link (close contact or other epidemiological link) to a locally acquired case with unknown source.
• Locally acquired cases, unknown source: Cases that have no reported history of international travel within 14 days of onset and no recorded epidemiological link to a source case.
• Source of infection remains under investigation whereby source of infection could not be classified due to incomplete EpiSurv case report forms. These cases are removed from further analyses in the sections below.

Lab testing and capacity

View a detailed break down of testing by region.

COVID-19 – tests by day and cumulative

Note: Two sets of cumulative test data have been reconciled to give cumulative total from 22 January 2020 when testing began.