An epidemiologist is urging people not to get complacent over the holidays about Covid-19 measures, as the country's death toll from the virus reaches 50.
Yesterday, another person with Covid-19 died. Nearly half of the 50 deaths have occurred in the past four months, as a result of the ongoing Delta outbreak.
University of Otago epidemiologist Michael Baker said every death was tragic.
"That is a sad milestone ... and 50 deaths is, of course, too many," he said.