How many people in the community have Covid-19? The Ministry of Health will provide an update at around 1pm.
The Ministry of Health is set to release the latest Covid-19 numbers, at about 1pm on Saturday.
The figures will indicate if the current downturn in numbers is an ongoing trend.
On Friday, there were 8728 new community cases of Covid-19 and a further 26 deaths of people with the virus.
There were 759 people in hospital with the virus, including 13 in intensive care or high dependency units.
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The seven-day rolling average number of cases was 8913, down from 9994 last Friday, continuing a six-day trend of average case numbers dropping.
New Zealand has been in the midst of a second wave, fuelled by the more transmissible BA.5 subvariant.
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Covid-19 Response Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall confirmed there would be no change to the traffic light settings.
On Friday, there were 1954 deaths of people with the virus reported in New Zealand. The seven-day rolling average of deaths with the virus was 26.
Earlier in the week, the ministry announced changes to how Covid-19 deaths are reported. Instead of reporting all people who died within 28 days of a Covid-19 infection, those who died because of the virus, or for whom Covid-19 was a contributing factor in their death, will be reported formally.
While officials will continue to report additional deaths with Covid-19 in the daily updates, the focus on reporting total Covid-19 deaths will shift to cases where deaths can be wholly or partly “attributed” to the virus.
While case numbers have been falling over the last week, the seven-day rolling average number of hospitalisations was up at 764 compared to 700 last Friday.
Hospitals at the top and bottom of the country have been restricting visitors due to virus transmission, and there were a record number of people with Covid-19 in hospital in Canterbury, with 155 patients hospitalised on Thursday.
The Government recently announced new measures to expand access to free rapid antigen tests (RATs), masks and Covid-19 antivirals.
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