August 23

New Zealand recorded 3,693 new community cases of COVID-19 and 35 more deaths from the pandemic, the country's Ministry of Health said on Tuesday.

The number of daily cases went down steadily from over 10,000 cases nationwide more than a month ago.

With the fresh cases, New Zealand has so far reported 1,706,294 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 1,841 related deaths since the pandemic hit the country in early 2020, the health ministry said.

Currently, 402 COVID-19 patients are being treated in hospitals in the country, including six in intensive care units or high dependency units, showed official data.

xinhua