Slow decline in new daily Covid cases for Raglan, Hamilton and central Waikato

Covid cases for Raglan, Hamilton and central Waikato are declining slowly and at a low level. They are now running at around 150 a day for late August. They are tracking in a 125 to 176 band. Our model is predicting that new cases will progressively decline. There is likely to be 3 new cases of Covid in Raglan each day with about 22 active community cases, self isolating.

For our graph we have combined new daily cases numbers in Hamilton City, Raglan and other Waikato District areas (e.g. Tamahere, Whatawhata, Ngaruawahia, Huntly and Gordonton). Starting from a high level of over 1200 daily cases in early March, the numbers plateaued at about 1000 then began to slowly drop down to just over half the peak to 785 on 25th March. After tracking at about 200 a day in early May, they then went up to 350 a day, and then dropped to around 195 a day. They moved up in July to around 382 new Covid cases each day and are now declining at about 150 at about 200 a day.

There were 205 new cases reported in the Waikato region on Saturday 27th for the previous 24 hours.

The total number of cases in this Waikato outbreak is now 139,150 (1808 active and 137,342 recovered).

There are 58 COVID-19 positive individuals receiving care at Te Whatu Ora Waikato hospitals – this is a mix of patients who are receiving care for COVID-19 and those receiving care for an unrelated condition who have also tested positive. There is currently one patient in HDU.

The Covid RATs Community Collection Site (Pre-order preferred) site for Raglan has moved to the Raglan Food Bank at 36 Bow Street, Raglan. (Between the Gym and the Vet.)

It is open:

Mon 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Wed 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Fri 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM

The Covid vaccination centre for Raglan is the Raglan Pharmacy in Bow Street on a walk up basis.

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