Covid Update

 As we should all know, the delta variant [ type of disease related to covid-19] is now at this instant moment is that it is spreading globally causing the anxiousness of civil people in a variety of countries.  Director of Public Health, Dr Caroline McElnay said today's numbers were "sobering, but not unexpected"."As we see numbers increase it is even more important that people get tested if they feel unwell and get vaccinated."Testing and vaccinations remain our best tools for fighting the virus. We also know that there was also one case in managed isolation.Of today's new community cases, 28 are yet to be linked. Of yesterday's 55 cases, 21 cases remain not linked. Health units from outside the Auckland region had been delegated 25 cases in order to manage the increasing workload.While there were no cases in "Waikato" today, the two community cases reported in the region yesterday remain not linked, But the Ministry of Health said some connections have been found and investigations continue. Results of whole genome sequencing are expected tonight which will be very exciting. There are 33 people in hospital, including five in intensive care.There have now been 1790 cases in the current community outbreak and 4472 cases since the pandemic began. Wow, to be honest I feel like I never want to go outside ever again. There were 13,960 swabs taken in Auckland yesterday and 28,646 other tests processed throughout the country. There were 3680 swabs taken in Waikato yesterday as testing numbers remained high, along with 6327 vaccinations.There were 68,787 vaccine doses given in the country yesterday - 15,704 first doses and 53,083 second doses.

Dr McElnay reminded the public that travel was restricted in alert level 3 and that people were only allowed to travel under certain circumstances, which included going to work, shopping for food and getting exercise.This is what she said "The key thing is for separate families not to be mixing indoors".