New Zealand's director-general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield is set to update the nation at 1pm on the Government's response to Covid-19 and reveal the number of new cases. It comes as yesterday there were nine new cases of Covid-19 in the South as the New Zealand total passed the 1000 mark. A further 89 confirmed and probable cases took New Zealand’s total number of cases to 1039. There were 58 cases linked to the Bluff wedding cluster, and 32 to the World Hereford Conference in Queenstown. Hope that cases will drop in next few daysDr Bloomfield told Mike Hosking this morning New Zealand had seen an "encouraging" flattening of growth in cases.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 06, 2020 00:45 UTC