There have been no new cases of Covid-19 in Northland for nearly three weeks as hundreds continue to be tested daily across the region.
Northland District Health Board has not seen any confirmed or probable cases for 19 consecutive days as of yesterday, while 5611 tests have been carried out across primary care, Northland DHB hospitals, community-based testing centres and aged residential care.
Northland has 26 confirmed and two probable cases with all bar four now recovered.
Two new cases outside Northland were yesterday announced by director-general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield, bringing the national total since the pandemic began to 1488.
The confirmed case is a student at Marist College in Auckland, one of the country's biggest coronavirus clusters.