The Ministry of Health report 24 new cases in Northland today, Wednesday 16th February.
Meanwhile, Northland District Health Board report 27 new cases in Northland today:
20 in Kerikeri
Three in Whangārei
Two in Kaeo
One in Paihia
One in Kaikohe
Following the DHB’s numbers:
There are 248 active Northland cases
125 Northland cases have now recovered
There has been a total of 373 Northland cases
No cases are in Northland hospitals
The Ministry are reconciling their two databases later this week, which should address discrepancies between the DHB and Ministry numbers.
📍There are no Northland Locations of Interest currently listed.
“With the increase in cases, we are no longer reporting low-risk or casual contact locations of interest. This is because the advice for these locations is the same as the advice for all of us; monitor for symptoms of COVID-19 and get tested if any arise.”, Northland DHB says.
They will continue to advise of any significant high-risk locations of interest where they need people to self-identify as close contacts. However, in most cases, close contacts are easily identified and notified directly.
💉 90% of the Northland eligible population, 86% of Māori and 99% of Pacific people have received at least one dose.
87% of the Northland eligible population, 81% of Māori and 95% of Pacific people are fully vaccinated.
2,006 Māori need to receive their first dose for the Northland Māori population to reach the 90% vaccination rate.
Today, New Zealand moved to Phase Two of the Omicron response.
🏡 The self-isolation period for cases has been reduced from 14 days to 10 days, and from 10 days to seven days for contacts
👩🏻⚕️ Critical workers will be able to ‘test to return’ - if they are an asymptomatic close contact they can go back to work after returning a negative RAT test
📲 Anyone who tests positive under will be notified by text message and now be directed to an online self-investigation tool that will focus on high-risk exposures
👨🏽💻 Household contacts will be managed by contact tracing services, with close contacts requiring a PCR test on day five
📍Contract tracing and how contacts are identified will shift to a focus on higher risk places like rest-homes and super spreader events. Scanning in using the NZ COVID Tracer app remains important
🔬Testing continues for symptomatic people and Close Contacts
More about the three phase Omicron plan
🇳🇿 1160 new community cases were reported across New Zealand today.
The five regions with the most new cases:
861 in Auckland
73 in the Waikato
39 in the Southern DHB area
33 in the Bay of Plenty
32 in the Capital & Coast DHB area
There were also 43 new cases found at the border today.
56 cases are in hospital (up from 40 yesterday), mainly in the Auckland region with one in Rotorua, three each in Tauranga and Waikato, and one each in Wellington and in Christchurch. None are in ICU or HDU.