The Ministry of Health is set to release its latest statement on new cases at 1pm. Most of the new cases will be from tests on Saturday, when 23,000 people were swabbed for Covid-19. Last month Medsafe issued a safety alert on myocarditis to raise awareness of this recently identified side effect to the Pfizer vaccine. The monitoring board considered that the circumstances of this death were consistent with what was known about myocarditis and the Pfizer vaccine. As recently as August 25 there have been 32 cases of people reporting myocarditis and pericarditis in New Zealand after getting the Pfizer vaccine.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 30, 2021 01:07 UTC