{"id":1017,"date":"2021-09-07T08:57:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T08:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2021-09-07T08:57:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T08:57:55","slug":"21-new-community-cases-in-nz-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"21 new community cases in NZ today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are 21 new community cases of Covid-19 in the country today.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/assets\/news_crops\/129121\/eight_col_0Z9A4898_%281%29.jpg?1630023615\" alt=\"A testing station for Assembly of God congregations in M\u0101ngere.\" width=\"720\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"caption\">A Covid-19 testing station in Auckland.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said all the new cases were all in Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Bloomfield said there was one additional case yet to be determined a border or community case.<\/p>\n<p>Of the new cases today, Bloomfield said seven of these were within one wh\u0101nau, and epidemiological tracing was trying to find out which of those seven people were infected first.<\/p>\n<p>He said all the cases that had been sequenced in the outbreak had been clearly linked.<\/p>\n<p>He said the outbreak now totalled 841 cases, and of those 147 had recovered.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of unlinked cases had fallen from 33 yesterday to 24 today, thanks to the efforts of public health units, he said.<\/p>\n<p>-RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 21 new community cases of Covid-19 in the country today. A Covid-19 testing station in Auckland.\u00a0Photo:\u00a0RNZ \/ Marika Khabazi Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said all the new cases were all in Auckland. Dr Bloomfield said there was one additional case yet to be determined a border or community case. Of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,222,174],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-latest-news","category-nz-news","tag-featured"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}