There have been 42,740 new cases of Covid-19 and 64 deaths of people with the virus over the past week, the Ministry of Health has announced.
There were also a total of 581 people in hospital with the virus, including 15 in ICU.
It comes as co-lead of the Network Contagion Modelling programme at Auckland University, Dion O'Neale, says many people who have "worked hard to avoid the virus" were now getting infected.
O'Neal says it's possible one in 20 people could have Covid-19 in the week of Christmas.
Health officials are also concerned a wave of Covid-19 during the holiday period could severely impact on already stretched staffing numbers in hospitals across the country.
3 comments
Dion
Posted on 19-12-2022 13:44 | By Slim Shady
"working hard to avoid the virus" is clearly a pointless exercise. The latest findings from a study is the US show that the best immunity going forward is to have an infection, not a 'booster' of an outdated vaccine.
Sadly
Posted on 19-12-2022 13:55 | By Kancho
The brakes have been off for a long time and the disintegration of NZ appears wasted. All the pain because of serious delays in vaccine PEP and Rats testing followed by national lockdowns, mandatory, people losing jobs and escalated borrowing and spending . Now it seems forget all that , well I think many won't forget next year
China
Posted on 21-12-2022 11:46 | By Slim Shady
Only 5 deaths this week in China. In a country of 1.4 billion. Now it would be easy to pour scorn on that figure….or should we question our (the ‘West’) own figures a bit more?
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