{"id":1117,"date":"2021-09-11T01:43:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T01:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2021-09-11T01:43:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T01:43:13","slug":"23-new-community-cases-reported-in-new-zealand-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1117","title":{"rendered":"23 new community cases reported in New Zealand  today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been 23 new cases of Covid-19 in the community reported in New Zealand today, more than double the amount reported yesterday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/assets\/news\/270848\/eight_col_170968132_l.jpg?1627690851\" alt=\"Coronavirus COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, 3D illustration. Close-up view of a corona virus with surface spikes\" width=\"720\" height=\"450\" \/><\/div>\n<p>There was no media conference today. In a statement, the Health Ministry said some volatility in the case numbers was likely at this stage as &#8220;we expect some changes in the numbers as day 5 and day 12 tests for contacts of cases are due, and we do further investigations of any new unlinked cases&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This does serve as a strong reminder of the importance of following the Covid-19 alert level rules wherever you are, and to get tested if you have any symptoms or have been at a location of interest at the specified times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, there were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/451206\/covid-19-update-11-new-community-cases-reported-in-nz-today\">11 cases reported in the community<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All of today&#8217;s cases were in Auckland and 14 of them have been epidemiologically linked to previous cases.<\/p>\n<p>There are now 19 people in hospital, with four in ICU or HDU.<\/p>\n<p>The total number of cases linked to the community outbreak is now 902.<\/p>\n<p>There was also one new case reported at the border today.<\/p>\n<p>There have now been a total of 3534 cases of the coronavirus in New Zealand since the pandemic started.<\/p>\n<p>In other news today, an MIQ worker at the Holiday Inn facility in Auckland has tested positive for Covid-19 during routine testing, and more than a dozen new Covid-19 locations of interest have been added to the list today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<strong>RNZ<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been 23 new cases of Covid-19 in the community reported in New Zealand today, more than double the amount reported yesterday. There was no media conference today. In a statement, the Health Ministry said some volatility in the case numbers was likely at this stage as &#8220;we expect some changes in the numbers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","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=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}