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The Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield has confirmed there are 40 new cases of Covid-19 and 3 new probable cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand.
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The Ministry of Health have details for one-third of the 40 new cases.
They include four cases of community transmission – three in Auckland, one in Wairarapa.
He said there were now 155 confirmed and probable cases, and 12 people have now recovered from the virus.
The three probable cases are people who have returned a negative result from testing, but they are clinically treated as probable because of their connection with other cases.
Dr Bloomfield said recent travel back from overseas was still the main driver of Covid-19 cases in this country.
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Source: rnz.co.nz Republished by arrangement.