There are nine new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand today.

Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield has provided an update this afternoon.

The new cases are made up of eight confirmed cases, and one probable case.

One of the cases was picked up in a managed isolation facility at routine testing on day 12.

The imported case is a woman in her 30s.

Information about where she travelled from has not yet been made available.

The other eight cases of Covid-19 are in the community, and have been epidemiologically linked to the Auckland cluster.

Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says one case has been linked to bus travel, one at a church and two in a workplace.

There are currently 132 active cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand, with 19 of these being imported cases.

The total number of confirmed cases in New Zealand is 1332.

Ashley says there are 10 people in hospital with Covid-19 and two people in intensive care.

There have been 151 people who are linked to the Auckland cluster moved to quarantine facilities.

There were 4589 tests completed yesterday, and almost 100,000 tests have been processed in the past seven days.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is expected to announce the alert level decision at 3pm this afternoon.

Earlier: Yesterday there were three new cases of Covid-19 reported in New Zealand with just one linked to the Auckland community cluster.

The Ministry of Health says the case is epidemiologically linked to the cluster and is a household contact of a previously reported case.

The two other cases are in managed isolation.

They consist of a woman in her 20s who arrived in New Zealand on August 16 from Croatia via Switzerland and Hong Kong.

She was in managed isolation at the Sudima in Rotorua and has now been transferred to the Jet Park Hotel in Auckland after her positive test.

The second case is a person in their 30s who was staying at the Grand Millennium in Auckland and tested positive around day 12 of their stay.

The total number of active cases in New Zealand is now 114, with 18 of these imported cases from managed isolation facilities.

The contact tracing team has now identified 2308 close contacts of the current cluster, with 2219 having been contacted and instructed to self-isolate, says the ministry.

There are 151 people linked to the cluster that have been moved to the Auckland quarantine facility, including 89 people who tested positive for the virus.

The total number of Covid-19 cases in New Zealand is now 1324.

Nine people with the virus are currently in hospital, two people are in Auckland City Hospital, four in Middlemore and another two in North Shore Hospital.

One person is in Waikato Hospital. Six people are stable while three are in ICU at Middlemore.

"All of the cases who are in hospital are isolated and carefully managed separately from other patients," the ministry says.

On Saturday, labs processed just over 7000 Covid tests, bringing the total number of tests completed to 692,481.

Today Cabinet will decide the fate of Auckland's alert level 3 lockdown and whether level 2 restrictions across the rest of the country can be eased.

The restrictions are due to lift at midnight Wednesday and ministers are meeting this afternoon to review whether community transmission has been contained.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Minister of Health Chris Hipkins will announce Cabinet's decision at 3pm today.