Covid-19 replace: 5575 new instances, 21 deaths

The variety of Covid-19 instances reported within the final week is barely down on the week earlier than.

As of 11.59pm on Sunday, 5575 instances have been reported with a seven-day rolling common of 796. There have been 164 instances in hospital, and information for the variety of instances in intensive care was not out there. Of all new instances, 3597 have been reinfections.

Twenty one deaths within the final week have been attibuted to Covid-19.

On Monday Well being New Zealand Te Whatu Ora confirmed the beforehand really helpful recommendation of testing for 5 days consecutively was altering.

Family contacts of somebody constructive for Covid-19 are not really helpful to check day by day, until they develop signs themselves.

Solely family contacts who developed a number of signs have been really helpful to remain at dwelling and take a fast antigen check, it mentioned.

If somebody returned a constructive outcome, it was really helpful that they remoted for at the least 5 days, beginning at Day 0 – even when they solely had gentle signs and so they have had Covid-19 earlier than.

In final Monday’s replace, there have been 6084 new instances, 20 deaths have been attributed to the virus and 205 folks have been in hospital with Covid.

The seven-day rolling common of recent instances was down from 868 the week earlier than.