Both of today's new cases are linked to the St Margaret's Hospital & Rest Home cluster in Auckland. Both cases were household contacts of an employee at the rest home, the Ministry of Health said this afternoon. The total of confirmed and probable cases in this country is now 1487 - "85 per cent of all confirmed and probable cases are now considered as recovered". This has increased on yesterday's numbers where there were only five people in hospital. "Today's numbers are encouraging but we can't take them for granted.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 03, 2020 01:07 UTC