New Zealand's 1422 coronavirus cases: Locations, ages, clusters, ethnicities
Where are the cases?
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This week, the Ministry began highlighting how many active, recovered and dead cases there are in each District Health Board. Southern DHB continues to have the most cases overall, while Tairawhiti has the fewest.
Cases in each DHB, ordered by the overall number of cases recorded
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Southern: 64 active, 152 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 216
Waitemata: 86 active, 120 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 206
Auckland: 49 active, 136 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 185
Waikato: 98 active, 84 recovered, 1 dead. Total: 183
Canterbury: 64 active, 76 recovered, 7 dead. Total: 147
Counties Manukau: 32 active, 78 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 110
Capital and Coast: 42 active, 49 recovered, 2 dead. Total: 93
Nelson-Marlborough: 14 active, 34 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 48
Bay of Plenty: 13 active, 32 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 45
Hawke's Bay: 21 active, 20 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 41
Mid Central: 11 active, 20 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 31
Northland: 17 active, 10 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 27
Hutt Valley: 7 active, 13 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 20
Lakes: 5 active, 11 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 16
South Canterbury: 9 active, 6 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 15
Taranaki: 3 active, 11 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 14
Wairarapa: 0 active, 8 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 8
Whanganui: 4 active, 4 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 8
West Coast: 2 active, 2 recovered, 1 dead. Total: 5
Tairawhiti: 3 active, 1 recovered, 0 dead. Total: 4
The seven deaths in Canterbury are all linked to the group from the Rosewood Rest Home cluster who were transferred to Burwood Hospital. New Zealand's first death was Greymouth woman Anne Guenole on the West Coast. Two people have died in Wellington, one of which was linked to the Bluff cluster. A single person has died in Waikato. He was linked to the Matamata cluster. Of New Zealand's 20 hospitalised cases, seven are in Waitemata, four are in Auckland, there are two each in Canterbury, Counties Manukau and Waikato, with single hospitalised cases in Northland, Southern and South Canterbury DHBs.
Transmission type:
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Contact with known case: 54 percent
Recent overseas travel: 38 percent
Community transmission: 4 percent
Source under investigation: 3 percent
Clusters
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Most of the cases now being recorded in New Zealand are being linked to clusters. These are groups of COVID-19 cases linked together as they have all been to the same location, but are not all part of the same household. Within a cluster there may be an individual who has a link to someone who has travelled. New Zealand has 16 significant clusters, up three since last Saturday. These are clusters with 10 or more cases. The origin of some remains unknown and under investigation.
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Bluff wedding: 96 cases, linked to overseas exposure
Marist College, Auckland: 92 cases, unknown origin
Matamata bar: 75 cases, linked to overseas exposure
Rosewood Rest Home, Christchurch: 40 cases, unknown origin
Stag party, Auckland: 38 cases, unknown origin
World Hereford Conference, Queenstown: 35 cases, linked to overseas exposure
"Community", Auckland: 30 cases, unknown origin
Ruby Princess cruise ship, Hawkes Bay: 22 cases, linked to overseas exposure
Auckland rest home (1): 21 cases, unknown origin
George Manning retirement village, Christchurch: 20 cases, unknown origin
Wellington group which travelled to the United States: 16 cases, linked to overseas exposure
Auckland group which travelled to the United States: 16 cases, linked to overseas exposure
Waikato rest home: 14 cases, linked to overseas exposure
Auckland rest home: 14 cases, linked to overseas exposure
Wellington wedding: 13 cases, linked to overseas exposure
Christchurch workplace: 10 cases, linked to overseas exposure
Ages
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0-9: 33
10-19: 113
20-29: 340
30-39: 217
40-49: 209
50-59: 234
60-69: 167
70+: 109
Gender
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Male: 639
Female: 782
Not specified: 1
Ethnicity
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European or other: 1053
Asian: 158
Maori: 121
Pacific peoples: 65
Unknown: 25
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Christmas Eve busiest shopping day of the year with more than 500,000 sales
Busiest shopping day of the year
Peak time 12 noon-1 pm - 563,303 transactions
Per second peak - 167 transactions
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Number of sales beats Black Friday, but lowest Christmas Eve in six years
Christmas Eve has been the busiest shopping day of the year with 9,745 sales a minute at its peak.
Payments company Worldline says noon to 1pm saw 563,303 sales recorded on its network, down by about 7 percent on a year ago.
The company's network covers about three-quarters of the electronic terminals in operation.
Worldline did not have a dollar value for spending, but the peak number of transactions was the lowest for the past six years and well shy of the record 679,436 in 2019, before the pandemic.
Earlier this month it noted rising sales in the first three weeks of the month, but they remained 1.3 percent lower than 2024, with most parts of the country trailing the previous year's spending.
Official data from Stats NZ to the end of November showed a small rise in spending on the previous month, to 1.6 percent higher for the year.
Retail spending has been subdued as households have remained cautious because of high prices and a slow benefit from lower interest rates, and as well as concerns about the soft labour market.
However, recent surveys have shown improving consumer sentiment with ANZ bank's monthly report showing confidence at its highest level in four years.
Boxing Day is traditionally the country's favourite shopping day, but with Black Friday spending also softer this year the amount going through retailers' terminals may also be down on a year ago.
Adding a dampener to consumer spending may be the recent rises in longer term fixed mortgage rates because of higher wholesale rates.
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