There have been no new cases of COVID-19 reported in New Zealand today, the Health Ministry has confirmed.

The total number of confirmed and probable cases in New Zealand stands at 1504, of these cases 1154 are confirmed.

There have been no further deaths reported.

There was one new case reported yesterday, linked to the St Margaret's cluster in Auckland, after four straight days of no cases.

Today there is no change to the number of people recovered at 1455 representing 97 per cent of all confirmed and probable cases as having recovered from COVID-19.

There is one person receiving hospital care for the virus, they are in Middlemore Hospital and are not in intensive care.

Yesterday laboratories completed 5604 tests, bringing the total number of tests completed to date to 255,850.