September 6

New Zealand recorded 2,035 new community cases of COVID-19 and four more deaths from the pandemic, the Ministry of Health said on Tuesday.

The country has seen the number of daily cases going down steadily from over 10,000 cases nationwide in early July.

With the fresh cases, New Zealand has reported 1,734,684 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 1,933 COVID-19-related deaths since the pandemic hit the country in early 2020, the ministry said.

Currently, 273 COVID-19 patients are being treated in hospitals in the country, including three in intensive care units or high dependency units, showed official data.

xinhua