By RNZ.co.nz. Republished with permission.
There are 60 new community cases of Covid-19 in the country today, the Ministry of Health reports.
In a statement, the ministry said 57 of today’s new community cases are in Auckland and three are in Waikato.
It said as at 10am, 36 of the cases are linked – 18 of which are household contacts – and 24 remain unlinked, with investigations continuing to help determine their connection to the outbreak.
There are also five new cases at the border.
On Sunday 51 new cases were reported – four in Waikato and the rest in Auckland.
The ministry yesterday confirmed that on Saturday (Super Saturday) 130,002 people were given a dose of the Pfizer vaccine. They included 39,025 first doses and 90,977 second doses.
Cabinet will today decide whether Auckland, Northland and parts of the Waikato can move alert levels.
RNZ understands ministers will also consider a traffic light-like system New Zealand could move to once the population is highly vaccinated.
