The Southern District Health Board (SDHB) has supplied the number of cases of COVID-19 in Wānaka to the Wānaka App. 

During the COVID-19 outbreak, case numbers were supplied at territorial authority level, but not for individual wards or communities.

Now, SDHB CEO Chris Fleming has revealed there have been 32 cases of COVID-19 in the Wānaka ward.

The ward includes Hāwea, Mātukituki and Wānaka.

Chris said not all of these cases were local residents.

“...we note that this number of 32 also includes six cases with an overseas address who were diagnosed while in the Wānaka ward,” Chris said.

SDHB CEO Chris Fleming supplied the numbers to the Wānaka App. PHOTO: Supplied

“Therefore the total case numbers are 26 for those actually residing in the Wānaka ward.” 

There are no active cases of COVID-19 in New Zealand after the last case was declared to be recovered on Monday (June 8). 

The Southern district has had 216 cases of COVID-19, which was for a long stretch the highest number of cases by region in the country. This number was eventually surpassed by Waitematā, which has had 237 cases.

The Queenstown Lakes district has had 87 cases, but until now it was not known where the cases were within the district.

The Wānaka App requested the Wānaka COVID-19 case numbers under an Official Information Act (OIA) request on May 1 and was supplied with the information today(Thursday June 11).

The SDHB told the Wānaka App in April it did not believe any additional public health interest would be served by providing Wānaka ward figures within the Queenstown Lakes district case numbers.