In a good news, New Zealand discharged its last patient from hospital and has seen no new cases, a doctor leading the country’s Covid-19 response said.
Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield told reporters at the Covid-19 press briefing that this is the first time they didn’t have anyone.
“I think this is the first time, at least probably in a couple of months, that we haven’t had somebody in hospital,” he said, “so that’s another good position to be in.”
He said: “Currently there is nobody in hospital with Covid-19 following the discharge of a person from Middlemore Hospital (in Auckland).”
New Zealand’s first recorded case of coronavirus was on February 28, according to Ministry of Health figures.
He added: “Clearly this is a virus that’s having a big impact globally… If we were the UK, we would’ve had between 3,000 and 3,500 deaths to date, yesterday we would’ve reported 250 new cases and we would still be in lockdown. That’s proportionate by population.”
They totally had 1154 cases with 21 deaths.
