Proactive Release: COVID-19 Response Weekly Reports - July 2022

The following document has been proactively released by the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (DPMC), on behalf of the Minister for COVID-19 Response, Hon Dr Ayesha Verrall:

COVID-19 Response Weekly Reports – July 2022

The following documents have been included in this release:

• Title of paper: COVID-19 Response Weekly Report 1 July 2022
• Title of paper: COVID-19 Response Weekly Report 8 July 2022
• Title of paper: COVID-19 Response Weekly Report 15 July 2022
• Title of paper: COVID-19 Response Weekly Report 22 July 2022
• Title of paper: COVID-19 Response Weekly Report 29 July 2022

Some parts of this information release would not be appropriate to release and, if requested, would be withheld under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act). Where this is the case, the relevant section of the Act that would apply has been identified. Where information has been withheld, no public interest has been identified that would outweigh the reasons for withholding it.

Key to redaction codes:

•  Section 6(a), to protect the security or defence of New Zealand or the international relations of the Government of New Zealand;
• Section 6(b)(i), to protect the entrusting of information to the Government of New Zealand on a basis of confidence by the Government of any other country or any agency of such a Government;
• Section 9(2)(a), to protect the privacy of individuals;
• Section 9(2)(b)(ii), to protect the commercial position of the person who supplied the information, or who is the subject of the information; and
• Section 9(2)(f)(iv), to maintain the confidentiality of advice tendered by or to Ministers and officials.