Dr Ashley Bloomfield says the 15 new cases are made up of six confirmed cases and nine probable cases. Twelve people are in hospital, three are in ICU and two are in a critical condition.
Auckland Council is asking residents of New Zealand's biggest city to take an honest approach to rubbish collection during the lockdown.
Rubbish collectors would not be cutting tags off of bins during the lockdown in a bid to minimise contact they have with residents' bins.
Instead, residents were asked by the council to remove tags themselves after each collection and replace them with a fresh tag before the next.
The pay as you throw tags were brought in to replace plastic bags. Photo / Supplied
Since then, the pay-as-you-throw system had started rolling out throughout the region.
The tag system was tipped to be more economical, as one full bin was equivalent to two orange bags.
It was also to prevent rubbish collectors from getting hurt on the job or bags getting attacked by animals, resulting in the rubbish all over the kerb.