Thursday February 17

Today there are 1,573 community cases.

Of these, 31 are in Northland, 1,140 in Auckland, 143 in Waikato, 29 in Bay of Plenty, 35 in Lakes District, 2 in Hawke’s Bay, 3 in MidCentral, 11 in Whanganui, 8 in Taranaki, 8 in Tairāwhiti, 30 in Wairarapa, 20 in Capital and Coast, 22 in Hutt Valley, 49 in Nelson Marlborough, 7 in Canterbury and 35 in Southern.

The seven day rolling average for community cases is now at 844.

There are a total of 63 people in hospital. Of these 4 are in North Shore, 22 in Middlemore, 28 in Auckland, 1 in Rotorua, 3 in Tauranga, 3 in Waikato, 1 in Wellington and 1 in Tairawhiti. 

There are zero cases in currently in ICU.

There were a total of 32,285 tests in the last 24 hours. 

More than 90 percent of Māori aged 12 years and over in the Hutt Valley have now been fully vaccinated, becoming the fourth DHB area in Aotearoa to achieve this milestone.

“Since January 22, when the first Omicron case was detected in the community, double vaccinated cases are ten times less likely to require hospitalisation than unvaccinated cases – four percent of unvaccinated cases have required hospitalisation and 0.4 percent of fully vaccinated cases have required hospitalisation,” the Ministry of Health says.

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