Everything you need to know about how the Covid-19 pandemic is tracking in New Zealand, through regularly updated data visualisations.
The Spinoff Covid tracker brings together all the relevant Covid data – cases, tests, vaccination and mobility – in one place.
The aim of this page is to show the numbers in the context of the larger picture. We will continuously update and improve it based on feedback.
The reporting times differ for some of the data sets. We will update them as soon as the data is public.
The mobility data we use comes from Google community mobility reports. It is only indicative, but it provides a view into the effectiveness of lockdowns and we will continue to update the data as we shift down levels.
Along with showing the top-line numbers, our vaccination graphs are designed to highlight the challenges that become visible when we look beyond the headline “90% vaccinated” target. Scroll down towards the end of this page to view vaccination data broken down by ethnicity and age, at a national and DHB level.
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NB: The Ministry of Health’s daily 1pm update includes deaths that occurred more than 28 days after a case was reported, and deaths that were reported with incomplete details. The below graph is based on Ministry of Health data that doesn’t include these.
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The following vaccination charts are updated weekly.
Click here to read an explainer for the following two charts showing vaccination data by age, ethnicity and DHB.