There are no new cases of covid-19 in New Zealand for the 15th consecutive day, with just one active case remaining.
The total remains at 1504 confirmed and probable cases, and just one case remains active.
There was no media conference today. The Health Ministry said in a statement there have been no further deaths.
The most recent case in the Southern district was reported on 18 April. Since then there have been no new cases in the district, making today the 49th consecutive day of no new cases in the Southern DHB region.
Eight significant clusters have now been closed.
Our total number of confirmed cases remains at 1,154, which is the number we report to the World Health Organization.
Our combined total of confirmed and probable cases remains at 1,504.
The number of recovered cases is unchanged at 1,481. Only one case remains active.
There are no additional deaths to report.
There is no one in New Zealand receiving hospital-level care for COVID-19.
Yesterday our laboratories completed 3,007 tests, bringing the total number of tests completed to date to 291,994.
Eight of our significant clusters have closed unchanged from yesterday.
A cluster is considered to be closed when there have been no new cases for two incubation periods (i.e. 28 days) from the date when all cases have completed isolation.