New Zealand's Health Director-General says the country's predicted worst-case scenario is now 'highly unlikely' after, in the past seven days, the country recorded, on average, 8,111 new cases daily of COVID-19, down from the previous week.
New Zealand's government says new COVID-19 cases are trending downwards and it looks likely the country will avoid a feared "worst-case scenario" of 20,000 daily infections.New Zealand's Health Director-General Ashley Bloomfield says the shift in case rates was supported by waste-water testingThe country has recorded a total of about 1.
Currently, 808 people are in hospital with COVID-19, which is also a lower number than a week earlier, the data shows. "What is apparent is that the worst-case scenario that our modellers had suggested a couple of weeks ago — with up to 1,200 beds occupied and over 20,000 cases a day — is now highly unlikely. And I'm sure we're all relieved to see this," Dr Bloomfield said.The Omicron BA.5 sub-variant is driving the current COVID-19 wave in New Zealand, which has a population of 5.1 million.