An elderly woman who died at St Margaret's rest home in Auckland last week is New Zealand's 22nd Covid-19 death. Hunter's family believe she contracted the deadly virus during an outbreak that infected staff and patients, but before today her death had not been recorded in the Ministry of Health's official Covid-19 death statistics. In the 1pm media briefing today Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said Hunter's death would now be treated as being related to Covid-19. However, after consideration, the ministry had decided to include the death in its overall tally of Covid-19-related deaths, "consistent with our inclusive approach to date". Dr Bloomfield also announced that there are no new Covid-19 cases today.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 28, 2020 00:45 UTC