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There are 692 people in hospital, including 30 patients in intensive care.

The deaths reported today takes New Zealand's total to 602 since the pandemic began.

Latest deaths in Tauranga, Waikato, Dunedin and Middlemore bring toll to 67.

Two of the schools are Petone Central School and St Patrick's College, Silverstream.

It comes after a raft of locations of interest in the South Island.

The Nelson Marlborough region recorded nine new cases of Covid-19 yesterday.

Positive Covid-19 cases have been confirmed in Invercargill and Gore.

The second case was believed to be the partner of the case announced earlier today.

It comes as Ministry of Health admits a severe undercount of Covid-19 hospital numbers.

The ship's operator and health authorities are not revealing how many.