To date, 1% of all Covid-19 cases in New Zealand have had the virus at least twice, and more than 350​ reinfections have been reported in the past 24 hours, new data reveals. On Thursday, the Ministry of Health released new information on Covid-19 reinfections for the first time. Since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 1,403,073​ confirmed Covid-19 cases – 14,010​ of which were reinfections (0.99%)​. Of these, 9573​ occurred between 29 and 90 days of a previously reported positive test result. As a result of these changes, Thursday’s case numbers include 6931​ additional previous cases arising from positive Covid-19 test results reported between 29 and 90 days after previous positive Covid-19 tests.

Source: Stuff July 07, 2022 19:56 UTC