WELLINGTON, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand recorded 1,483 new community cases of COVID-19 and nine more deaths from the pandemic, the Ministry of Health said on Friday.
The country has seen the number of daily cases going down steadily from over 10,000 cases nationwide in early July.
With the fresh cases, New Zealand has reported 1,739,718 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 1,944 COVID-19-related deaths since the pandemic hit the country in early 2020, the ministry said.
Currently, 243 COVID-19 patients are being treated in hospitals in the country, including five in intensive care units or high dependency units, showed official data.
The country is currently under the orange settings of its COVID-19 Protection Framework. ■