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Fourth day in a row of no new Covid-19 cases in Clutha/Southland today. There have been 15 new cases of Covid-19 reported in New Zealand in the past 24 hours. Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said the 15 new cases were made up of six confirmed and nine probable cases.
Dr Bloomfield said a post-mortem was being carried out on the body of a Southland man whose death at his home had been linked to Covid-19, and more information would be provided once the Health Ministry had the findings from that.
Southern DHB Chief Executive Chris Fleming says the Ministry of Health is the lead agency for the COVID-19 response. As a result, enquiries relating to a patient’s death at an Invercargill property would be addressed by the Director-General of Health Dr. Ashley Boomfield when information on the cause of death was available.
The man is linked to the Bluff cluster.
There have been no further deaths.
Eleven of the new cases are connected to the 16 existing clusters.
Dr Bloomfield said 770 people had recovered from the coronavirus, an increase of 42 from yesterday, and the total number of infections has reached 1401.
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Four percent of cases are still under investigation.
Yesterday 3661 tests were analysed and 60,160 tests have been carried out in total.
No new cases in the Clutha/Southland region today, the Ministry of Health and Southern DHB announced. The total confirmed Civd-19 cases in Clutha/Southland is 58, made up of Southland (10), Invercargill (41) Gore (2) and Clutha (5).
Source: rnz.co.nz MOH SDHB, Republished by arrangement.
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