There are no new cases of COVID-19 in New Zealand, Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield confirmed on Monday.
Dr Bloomfield made the announcement during the daily 1pm briefing alongside Police Commissioner Andrew Coster.
Therefore, the overall total of confirmed and probable cases remains at 1499. Recoveries also remain the same as Sunday, with 1433 - or 96 percent of all cases - now recovered from the virus.
Two people are hospitalised at Middlemore and Auckland Hospital. Neither are in the ICU.
Significant clusters of COVID-19 remain at 16. There have been no additional deaths, the death toll remaining at 21.
On Sunday, 2570 tests were processed, bringing the overall total of tests nationwide to 230,718.
Dr Bloomfield will be leading the New Zealand delegation on Monday night at the 2020 World Health Assembly. The annual event, typically held in Geneva, Switzerland, will be undertaken virtually given the current pandemic.
The Minister of Health, Dr David Clark, will be presenting New Zealand's national statement via video.
New Zealand is co-sponsoring a resolution on COVID-19, the purpose of which is to "agree that there are high levels of future work to be undertaken on COVID-19 by member states and the WHO - one example being to ensure fair access to vaccines", Dr Bloomfield said.
"It's critical that countries come together and the COVID-19 solution aims to support that. Such solidarity will ensure we respond collectively to these sorts of global challenges."
Dr Bloomfield noted that a review of the response to the pandemic will be conducted, which is standard protocol following a global health emergency. Reviews were conducted after both the ebola outbreak and the swine-flu pandemic (H1N1) in 2009.
"The findings will help to inform the WHO subsequent work and the work of its member states [and will ensure] appropriate technical guidance and support is developed," Dr Bloomfield said.
The number of people being allowed to attend gatherings is also being reconsidered by Cabinet, Dr Bloomfield confirmed. Under alert level 2, only 10 people may be involved in public or private social gatherings. In public spaces or at public events, attendees or patrons must be capped at 100.
Coster confirmed that breaches of alert level 2 have been significantly lower than those under level 3, with the public reporting roughly 200 to 250 breaches per day - compared to 700 to 1000 reports during alert level 3.
Since the beginning of alert level 2 on Thursday, there have been 983 breaches - roughly 700 relating to businesses and 250 regarding mass gatherings. Most of the complaints pertain to retail businesses not having adequate contact tracing systems in place, or not maintaining correct distancing measures.
Parties on Friday and Saturday night were not at a level seen on other weekends, Coster said.
Twenty-nine breaches have resulted in formal warnings, while one individual has been prosecuted.
Dr Bloomfield says he's "watchful" in case there's a spike in cases at the end of this week or early next week.
"Obviously we want to remain watchful, we want to keep up that testing across the country to make sure if there any cases there that may have gone undetected to date, we're finding them," he said.
"We're more likely to find them or see a spike because people are interacting more. Hence continuing the wide testing and being ready to act quickly."
