Watch: COVID-19 Media Update, 22nd April

Watch the daily media conference with government officials and ministers.
22 Apr 2020
The daily COVID-19 media conference will be held at 1pm.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield are providing an update on the Covid-19 situation in New Zealand.

Apr 22, 2020 1:04 PM RNZ Live

6 new Covid-19 cases in New Zealand. All are confirmed. Three are travel related and the other three are connected to clusters.

The combined total is 1451.
One more person has died, a woman in her 80s who was a resident of the Rosewood rest home. She had underlying health conditions.
11 people are in hospital, two of those are in ICU. The patients are in a stable condition – Dr Ashley Bloomfield.
1036 people have reported as covered.
5289 tests were completed yesterday – a record to date.
The total number of tests completed is 94,497.
This week there will be testing of selected groups, including health workers and essential workers as part of the surveillance to make sure community members aren’t being missed.
Dr Bloomfield says he has made an amendment to section 70 notices to allow businesses to be able to work towards alert level three over the coming days.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern opened her statement by saying that when we move to alert level three, those returning to New Zealand from overseas will still go into quarantine in government facilities. There is no end point to that part of the Covid-19 response she said. 2403 people are in government provided facilities. The number in quarantine are 97, the remainder are in isolation.
There have been 4128 breaches of the CDM and Health Acts under the level four lockdown to date – Jacinda Ardern.
Of those breaches, 433 have been prosecutions, 3580 official warnings and 115 youth referrals.

Speakers:

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
Dr Ashley Bloomfield, Director-General of Health
Watch a live stream of the media conference here at 1pm.

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