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Health officials are set to release the latest confirmed case numbers of New Zealand’s Omicron variant outbreak – as the country’s death toll nears 500. The Ministry of Health will release case numbers and the number of any further deaths in the past 24 hours at 1pm. Yesterday they confirmed a further 10 Covid-related deaths – taking the reported death There are 18,423 new Covid cases today and 11 new deaths to report with 913 people in hospital. Twenty-eight people are in intensive care units. In a statement, the Ministry of Health said today’s deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with Covid-19 to 221 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths to 10. Of the 11 There are 15,161 new community cases of Covid-19 today, 618 people are in hospital and one person has died with Covid. The Ministry of Health said the person died at Auckland Hospital. “The person had unrelated medical conditions and had tested positive for Covid-19.” Of the 618 people in hospital, 10 are in intensive care. The ministry said the decrease COVID LATEST• Omicron outbreak: Infected baby hospitalised after two negative test results• Riot police move in on Parliament protest during late-night tensions• All Black Joeli Vidiri died in wife’s arms after catching Covid on wedding trip• School closes for two weeks with an Omicron case in almost every class New Zealand currently has one of the highest R values for The Omicron wave is stripping away one of New Zealand’s trustiest test tools, as labs are forced to move away from batch-processing of samples. But scientists hope that a PCR testing bottleneck on labs from the loss of time-saving “pooled sampling” will be offset as more Kiwis self-diagnose using rapid antigen tests. In pooled sampling, up to 10 test samples Forecasters estimate more than one million New Zealanders will be infected with Omicron and hundreds will die within the next few months, as the Prime Minister warns the country to “prepare for winter”. The new modelling has prompted warnings from leaders in Māori health and intensive care that the Omicron surge could soon grow much worse, while one expert describes There are 243 new community Covid-19 cases today – the highest daily number since the beginning of the pandemic two years ago. Yesterday, there were 209 new Covid cases in the community. The record was 222 daily community cases on November 16 last year at the height of the Delta outbreak. “The continued increase in cases today is a reminder A number of new locations of interest have been published by the Ministry of Health, including an Auckland clothing story, Nelson Airport and a Gisborne McDonald’s. Shoppers at Connor in Botany Town Centre in East Tamaki on Friday January 28 between 12.15pm and 10pm are being asked to monitor for symptoms for 10 days after the potential exposure, and to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Governor General Dame Cindy Kiro are both now isolating after a flight attendant on their flight from Kerikeri to Auckland tested positive for Omicron. All those on the flight are considered close contacts. Ardern and Kiro were returning from Waitangi last Saturday after filming pre-recorded speeches for Waitangi Day. That flight has been deemed as Extra Covid-19 testing is being set up in Tauranga after an early childhood centre was visited by a person suspected to have the highly-transmissible Omicron variant. BestStart Pyes Pa is closed and more than 70 children and staff were on-site the same day as the case – understood to be a parent – was there, company deputy chief executive FionaCovid 19 Omicron outbreak: Officials set to release new figures, death toll nears 500
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