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Today there are no new cases of COVID-19 to report.
It has now been 85 days since the last case of COVID-19 was acquired locally from an unknown source.
There is no one in New Zealand receiving hospital-level care for COVID-19.
The total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 remains at 1206, which is the number we report to the World Health Organization.
Yesterday our laboratories completed 2,307 tests.
That brings the total number of tests completed to date to 453,923
Testing remains an important part of our overall strategy to detect any community cases of COVID-19 as quickly as possible.
We all have a part to play and we’re encouraging anyone who is offered a swab, to take up that offer.
Pharmacist prescribers Linda Bryant and Leanne Te Karu discuss positive polypharmacy for heart failure. Current evidence shows the intensive implementation of four medications offers the greatest benefit to most patients with heart failure, with significant reductions in cardiovascular mortality, heart failure hospitalisations and all-cause mortality
