The latest in our series of charts, graphics and data visualisations by Chris McDowall. David Garcia worked with Chris to create today’s charts.
These posts collate the most recent statistics and present them as charts and maps. The Ministry of Health typically publishes data updates in the early afternoon, which describe the situation at 9am on the day of release. These data visualisations are interactive so use your mouse or thumb to hover over each graph for more detail.
The Ministry of Health announced one new confirmed case of Covid-19 today. This case is related to the Matamata cluster.
This afternoon’s Ministry of Health figures report that the total number of confirmed and probable Covid-19 cases is up one to 1,489 (1,139 confirmed and 350 probable). A total of 1,332 people have recovered, which is an increase of 16 since yesterday. There were no new deaths overnight.
The number of significant clusters with 10 or more cases remains at 16. In 13 of these clusters transmission is treated as still potentially ongoing, while three clusters have been closed. There are four people in hospital which is a decrease of four since yesterday. There are no known Covid-19 cases in intensive care units.
Yesterday, a record number of 7,323 tests were processed. The ministry reported averaging 4,779 Covid-19 lab tests per day during the week ending May 3. A total of 168,023 lab tests have been conducted since January 22. There are 82,764 test supplies in stock, up from 60,688 yesterday.
This chart compares active and recovered cases. Active cases are confirmed or probable cases of Covid-19 where the person has neither recovered nor died. Recovered cases are people who were once an active case, but are at least 10 days since onset and have not exhibited any symptoms for 48 hours.
The overall downward trend of active case counts that started around April 8 continues. Note how the blue curve is levelling off, while the purple bars continue to decline. This means there are very few new cases being reported while existing cases steadily recover.
This table shows the number of active cases, recovered people and deaths in each district health board area. There are eight districts with no active cases. Today Mid Central registered no active cases for the first time. Bay of Plenty, Lakes, Tairāwhiti, Taranaki, Wairarapa West Coast and Whanganui continue to have no active cases.
The largest number of active cases are in Waitamatā (30), Auckland (21), Waikato (20) and Canterbury (17).
You can sort the table’s rows by clicking on the column titles.
The symbol map shows confirmed and probable Covid-19 cases arranged by district health board. In keeping with the lack of new cases, there is no change in regional counts. Waitematā (up one to 229), Southern (no change at 216), Waikato (up one to 187) and Auckland (no change at 178) are the four district health boards with the largest number of active cases.
Today’s new confirmed case was in Waikato district health board and associated with the Matamata cluster.
Of New Zealand’s 16 significant clusters, 13 remain under investigation for ongoing transmission by the Ministry of Health.
This chart shows the number of active, recovered and deaths associated with each cluster. The ministry has not released formal counts associating deceased persons with clusters. Instead, we compiled these numbers from ministry media releases about each case.
Across all district health boards, the number of recovered cases outweighs the number of active cases in all significant clusters.
Three significant clusters have been closed. Closing a cluster signifies that the ministry is confident there is no longer transmission of the virus within, or associated with the cluster. A cluster can be closed after 28 consecutive days pass since the most recent onset date of a reported case. This period corresponds to two incubation periods for the virus.
This chart shows cases by the date they were first entered into EpiSurv, ESR’s public health surveillance system. Note that the number of cases reported on a particular date may not match the number of cases reported in the last 24 hours. This is because the number of confirmed and probable cases reported in the last 24 hours includes cases that were entered on an earlier date as “under investigation” or “suspected” whose status has now been changed to confirmed or probable.
The gap in cases between May 1 and May 6 signifies that no new cases were entered into the EpiSurv database during these dates.