Kia ora,

 

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Kia ora Helen,

 

Thank you for your request for official information, received on24
November 2021 requesting:

 

“Consolidated request: Please send me the updated reports as stated below
as the ones available on your publications website are all over 18 months
old:

 

Consequences and mitigation strategies for COVID-19 control measures

 

Control measures to deliver COVID-19 strategie

 

COVID-19 in childrens: Education sector evidence review

 

Potential Worse Case Health Impacts from the COVID-19 Pandemic for New
Zealand if Eradication Fails

 

Rationale for Border Control Interventions and Options to Prevent or Delay
the Arrival of Covid-19 in New Zealand

 

Supporting the COVID-19 pandemic response: Surveillance and Outbreak
Analytics

 

Alternatively please send me any reports that are covering the same
content and are current.

 

Please provide me the report showing the breakdown of vaccinated vs
un-vaccinated (including 1st dose, 2nd dose etc) for hospitalisations from
the 7th August 2021 until the 24 November 2021.

Please provide me with the number reported co-morbidities per
hospitisation/death (eg. 2,3,1,2,3 to not give reference to a date and or
patient) and a non patient specific list of these co-morbidities to not
break patient confidentiality.

 

If these are too specific then a total number per month is also
acceptable.”

 

The Ministry of Health has decided to extend the period of time available
to respond to your request under section 15A of the Official Information
Act 1982 (the Act) as further consultation is required, the request is for
a large quantity of official information and necessitates a search through
a large quantity of information.

 

You can now expect a response to your request on, or before, 21 February
2022.

 

Please note that this includes the holiday shutdown period laid out in the
Act from 25 December 2021 to 15 January 2022.

 

You have the right, under section 28 of the Act, to ask the Ombudsman to
review my decision to extend the time available to respond to your
request.

 

Ngâ mihi 

 

OIA Services

Government Services

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Ministry of Health

E: [1][email address]

 

 

 

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Tēnā koe Helen, 

 

Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the
Act) to the Ministry of Health (the Ministry) on 24 November 2021 for
updates on reports from our website. 

You specifically requested: 

Consequences and mitigation strategies for COVID-19 control measures
Control measures to deliver COVID-19 strategies 

This information is publicly available here: 

o [1]www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-response-planning/covid-19-minimisation-and-protection-strategy-aotearoa-new-zealand 
o [2]www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-response-planning/covid-19-community-response-framework 
o [3]www.health.govt.nz/publication/covid-19-modelling-and-other-commissioned-reports 

COVID-19 in childrens: Education sector evidence review 

Information regarding COVID-19 and education is publicly available here: 

o [4]https://covid19.govt.nz/assets/Proactive...
o [5]https://covid19.govt.nz/assets/Proactive...
o [6]https://covid19.govt.nz/about-our-covid-...

Further information about COVID-19 and education can be found on the
Ministry of Education website at: [7]www.education.govt.nz/covid-19/ 

 

Potential Worse Case Health Impacts from the COVID-19 Pandemic for New
Zealand if Eradication Fails 

This information is publicly available
here: [8]https://journal.nzma.org.nz/journal-arti...

Rationale for Border Control Interventions and Options to Prevent or Delay
the Arrival of Covid-19 in New Zealand 

Information regarding border control is publicly available here: 

o [9]www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-response-planning/covid-19-border-controls 
o [10]https://covid19.govt.nz/assets/resources...
o [11]https://covid19.govt.nz/assets/Proactive...
o [12]https://covid19.govt.nz/assets/Proactive...
o [13]https://covid19.govt.nz/assets/Proactive...
o [14]https://covid19.govt.nz/about-our-covid-...

Supporting the COVID-19 pandemic response: Surveillance and Outbreak
Analytics 

This information is publicly available
here: [15]www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-response-planning/covid-19-surveillance-strategy 

Alternatively please send me any reports that are covering the same
content and are current. 

Please provide me the report showing the breakdown of vaccinated vs
un-vaccinated (including 1st dose, 2nd dose etc) for hospitalisations from
the 7th August 2021 until the 24 November 2021. 

Please provide me with the number reported co-morbidities per
hospitisation/death (eg. 2,3,1,2,3 to not give reference to a date and or
patient) and a non patient specific list of these co-morbidities to not
break patient confidentiality. 

The Ministry continues to improve on its reporting of national
hospitalisation data related to COVID-19. Initially that will involve
comprehensive reporting of all cases in hospital with COVID-19 for the
Northern region – Northland DHB and the three Auckland metro DHBs.  This
can be used as an early indicator of demand on our hospitals.  We expect
to begin this in February 2022.  

 

Subsequently we will be reconciling those figures with discharge data and
supplementing our reporting to reflect those in hospital with a primary
cause of COVID-19 for the Northern region.  We expect to start this is
March. Over time similar reporting for other regions will be added to the
national reporting. 

  

The Ministry will be updating death data on our website in due course. 

  

Under section 28(3) of the Act, you have the right to ask the Ombudsman to
review any decisions made under this request. The Ombudsman may be
contacted by email at: [16][email address] or by calling 0800
802 602.  

Ngā mihi

 

OIA Services Team

 

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