There are 134 new community cases of Covid-19 reported in the community today.

In a statement, the Ministry of Health said the new community cases are in Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty and the Nelson/Marlborough regions.

“We are also advising of two additional cases in Nelson-Tasman region. This brings the number of cases in the region to three. Due to a technical error, these three confirmed cases in Nelson-Tasman will be officially included in our figures tomorrow,” the ministry said.

There are no additional cases to report today in Hawke’s Bay, Lakes, Taranaki, MidCentral, Wairarapa, or Wellington.

Today there are 89 cases in hospital – 15 in North Shore, 36 in Auckland, 34 in Middlemore, three in Waikato and one in Rotorua. Of these cases, 67 are not vaccinated or not eligible to get vaccinated.

There are also nine cases in ICU or HDU.

That brings the total number of community cases in the current outbreak to 8431.

On vaccinations, there were 40,972 total doses administered yesterday – including 6213 first doses and 11,862-second doses. To date, 92 percent of eligible people in New Zealand have had their first dose and 86 percent are fully vaccinated.

The ministry said as at 10am today, there are 152 location of interest.

Yesterday, there were 182 new community cases in the country.

Prime Minister also announced yesterday which regions will move into red and which into orange as the new traffic light system comes in on Friday.