evidence: Ministry of Health numbers show an ongoing growth in transmission of Covid-19 with 9307 new community cases in New Zealand yesterday and a further 22 Covid-related deaths. There are 570 people in hospital with the virus, including nine in intensive care. [...] It has seen Air NZ yesterday citing "increasing levels of illness in the community" as the reason for bringing back its Covid-19 fare credit scheme for those whose travel plans clashed with sickness. Auckland University's associate professor Dr Siouxsie Wiles says Kiwis were not unified in their approach to public health measures.