There are 19 new Covid-19 cases in the community on Thursday, 18 of which are in Auckland, Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield has confirmed.
The 19th case is from the upper Hauraki district - a student from Mangatangi School who is already in isolation, Bloomfield said.
Bloomfield gave the updated figures at the 1pm briefing alongside Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in Wellington.
The total number of cases in the Delta outbreak is now 1249.
Bloomfield said 16 of Thursday's cases are contacts of previous cases, one is a household contact who had not been previously identified and one is a possible contact.
There are 18 cases in hospital of which three are in ICU.
On the Mangatangi School case, Bloomfield said the student has been isolating at home for the past 10 days and the positive result was returned because the student became symptomatic and was tested around day 11 of their isolation.
"A small number of household contacts of the student are being followed up," he said.
"The student is one of 98 who have now received day 12 tests, both and students. Ninety-six negative results have been returned and the final outstanding test is expected today.
"The student initially tested negative but was re-tested after developing symptoms."
Bloomfield said the risk of spread from the case is low due to their isolating.
Bloomfield added there had been a change in suburbs of interest in Auckland as well with Ōtara no longer on the list but Henderson and Papakura had been added.
Alongside the two additions, Clover Park, Māngere, Favona, Manurewa and Mt Wellington/Sylvia Park are still of interest and people living in those areas are asked to be tested even if the aren't symptomatic.
The Ministry of Health currently has 911 active contacts being managed of which 88 per cent have been contacted to confirm testing and isolation requirements.
A further 40,874 vaccines were administered yesterday, taking the country's total jabs to date to 5,176,210 of which 3,281,176 are first doses.
There are no new unexpected wastwater detections with the latest results taken from Mount Maunganui and Tauranga coming back undetected.
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