There was one new case of COVID-19 reported in New Zealand today, but the south is down to just four active cases.

Today’s confirmed case is linked to the Marist cluster in Auckland and was identified through recent follow-up testing of the school community. The person first had symptoms nearly two months ago and had a previous negative test. The result is considered a 'weak positive' and the person, who has been in isolation through the lockdown period, is not considered infectious now.

This means New Zealand’s combined total of confirmed and probable cases is now 1498, of which 1148 are confirmed. 

Nationally 1421 people are reported as having recovered from COVID-19. This is 95% of all confirmed and probable cases. There are now just 56 active cases across the country.

The most recent case in the Southern District Health Board region was reported on April 18. Since then there have been no new cases in the district. Of the 216 cases reported in the south, 210 have now recovered.

The number of confirmed cases that have been reported to the World Health Organisation is 4,248,389 cases – up by 77,965 on the previous 24 hours. There have been 294,046 deaths – 6647 in the previous 24 hours.