Cabinet meets today to decide whether to take Auckland out of Alert Level 3 and the the rest of the country out of Level 2.
As of this morning, there are no new cases in the community extending the four-day run of good news.
But health authorities are still waiting on the tests of a "long tail" of about 30 close contacts, most of them from a Papatoetoe gym and those results could be critical in any decision.
There are also two students at Papatoetoe High School who have declined tests for Covid-19.
Corin Dann spoke to Associate Minister of Health Ayesha Verrall.
