New Zealand's 1312 coronavirus cases: Locations, clusters, ages, ethnicities
Where are the cases?
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The latest data from the Ministry of Health shows that the Southern District Health Board (DHB) continues to have more cases of COVID-19 than any other DHB, with 207. It's followed by Waitemata, Auckland, Waikato and Canterbury. Tairawhiti continues to have the fewest with only a single case in that DHB. The Ministry of Health website doesn't break the data down into individual towns or areas, however, some DHBs are providing more specific information on their websites.
Total cases by DHB
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Southern: 207
Waitemata: 183
Auckland: 173
Waikato: 167
Canterbury: 135
Counties Manukau: 98
Capital and Coast: 86
Nelson Marlborough: 48
Bay of Plenty: 42
Hawke's Bay: 38
Mid Central: 28
Northland: 25
Hutt Valley: 21
Lakes: 14
Taranaki: 14
South Canterbury: 11
Wairarapa: 9
Whanganui: 7
West Coast: 5
Tairawhiti: 1
Transmission
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New Zealand is now in its third week of nationwide lockdown under alert level 4. The decision of whether to extend that lockdown from its currently four-week run or to lift it will be made on April 20. One of the key pieces of data that will be considered if the level of community transmission, which is where officials can't identify who an infected individual contracted the illness from. That is up 1 percent on last week, while transmission overseas has fallen.
Transmission type
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Overseas: 40 percent
Contact with known case: 46 percent
Community transmission: 2 percent
Source under investigation: 11 percent
Clusters
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Outbreaks within New Zealand may be referred to as clusters. These are groups of COVID-19 cases linked together as they have all been to the same location. Within a cluster there may be an individual who has a link to someone who has travelled. The number of cases linked to clusters has grown over the last week with the increase in the "contact with known case" transmission type. There are 13 significant clusters in New Zealand.
These are clusters with 10 or more cases.
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Bluff wedding: 85 cases
Marist College, Auckland: 85 cases
Matamata bar: 70 cases
Party in Auckland: 35 cases
World Hereford Conference, Queenstown: 33 cases
Rosewood rest home, Christchurch: 30 cases
Workplace, Auckland: 28 cases
Wellington group which travelled to the United States: 16
Ruby Princess cruise ship: 16
Auckland group which travelled to the United States: 15
George Manning retirement village: 14
A rest home in Waikato: 14
A wedding in Wellington: 13
Ages
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0-9: 24
10-19: 102
20-29: 325
30-39: 204
40-49: 189
50-59: 216
60-69: 158
70+: 94
Sex
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Male: 592
Female: 718
Not specified: 2
Ethnicity
European or other: 963
Asian: 133
Unknown: 52
Maori: 110
Pacific people: 54
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Even Australians get it - so why not Kiwis???
“Ten years ago, if a heatwave as intense as last week’s record-breaker had hit the east coast, Australia’s power supply may well have buckled. But this time, the system largely operated as we needed, despite some outages.
On Australia’s main grid last quarter, renewables and energy storage contributed more than 50% of supplied electricity for the first time, while wholesale power prices were more than 40% lower than a year earlier.
[…] shifting demand from gas and coal for power and petrol for cars is likely to deliver significantly lower energy bills for households.
Last quarter, wind generation was up almost 30%, grid solar 15% and grid-scale batteries almost tripled their output. Gas generation fell 27% to its lowest level for a quarter century, while coal fell 4.6% to its lowest quarterly level ever.
Gas has long been the most expensive way to produce power. Gas peaking plants tend to fire up only when supply struggles to meet demand and power prices soar. Less demand for gas has flowed through to lower wholesale prices.”
Full article: www.theguardian.com...
If even Australians see the benefit of solar - then why is NZ actively boycotting solar uptake? The increased line rental for electricity was done to make solar less competitive and prevent cost per kWh to rise even more than it did - and electricity costs are expected to rise even more. Especially as National favours gas - which is the most expensive form of generating electricity. Which in turn will accelerate Climate Change, as if New Zealand didn’t have enough problems with droughts, floods, slips, etc. already.
Poll: Should the government levy industries that contribute to financial hardship?
As reported in the Post, there’s a $30 million funding gap in financial mentoring. This has led to services closing and mentors stepping in unpaid just to keep helping people in need 🪙💰🪙
One proposed solution? Small levies on industries that profit from financial hardship — like banks, casinos, and similar companies.
So we want to hear what you think:
Should the government ask these industries to contribute?
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58.9% Yes, supporting people is important!
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26.4% No, individuals should take responsibility
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14.7% ... It is complicated
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