Ben Leahy is a reporter for the New Zealand HeraldThere are no new Covid community cases as Auckland basks in level 1 freedoms. The total number of active cases in New Zealand now sits at 86. The country's total number of confirmed cases was 2061. The total number of tests processed by laboratories to date was more than 1.8mOn Thursday, 6629 tests were processed. The seven-day rolling average up to yesterday was 6486 tests processed per day.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 12, 2021 00:02 UTC