Hon Dr AYESHA VERRALL (Minister for Food Safety): Today, I am thinking of the 687 people affected by COVID in New Zealand, the 32 in our hospitals, and the eight in intensive care. I am thinking of the seven children under one year who are cases in this outbreak, and their families. If we think about this outbreak, we've seen the cases peak at 83 on Thursday of last week, and we hope now that case numbers are coming down—down at 75 today. Further cause for optimism is that, for the last four days, more than half of contacts have been linked to a known case.