Manawatū-Whanganui emergency management centre will take a lead in co-ordinating welfare supplies to people's homes.

The MidCentral Health district has survived a day with no new Covid-19 cases confirmed.

While the national total of confirmed and probable cases has increased by 58 to 647, MidCentral's tally remains at 11 – 10 confirmed and one probable.

None of the patients have required hospital admission.

Two of the people have recovered, meaning they have been free of symptoms for at least 14 days.

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The cases tracked so far include three in Palmerston North, two in Manawatū, five in Horowhenua and one in Tararua.

Meantime, regional councils including Horizons have ramped up their processes to ensure people stuck at home during the extended state of emergency get the help they need.

Civil Defence emergency management director Sarah Stuart-Black said the new actions were opposite to traditional civil defence activity.

KEVIN STENT/STUFF Sarah Stuart-Black, director of civil defence emergency management, announces regional responses to welfare needs.

Instead of putting welfare options in place for people displaced by natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes, the need in the lockdown was to get welfare to people at home and unable to go out.

Group controller Craig Grant said welfare was the biggest concern for the region's coronavirus response.

"Self-isolation means many of our most vulnerable are struggling to access essential services. We have heard of an elderly lady who had not left her home for days and had run out of food.

"It is important that everyone in our community has access to what they need to get through.

"Everyone can do their part and check in on neighbours, friends and family, and let them know about services available."

The Manawatū-Whanganui Civil Defence and Emergency Management Group has activated a dedicated welfare helpline to help get household goods and services such as food, water, clothing and bedding to people's homes.

It was for people who could not make arrangements through their own support networks.

Group welfare manager Jeanie Boost-Turner said many of the region's city and district councils already had arrangements in place for delivering welfare needs locally.

"This helpline also does not replace other welfare support agencies, such as Ministry for Social Development, Ministry for Primary Industries, and Salvation Army, who already have systems in place for responding to COVID-19," she said.

The helpline would help track welfare needs at a regional level, coordinate and distribute goods and services where they were needed most.

"It will also enable us to report up to the National Emergency Management Agency."

The number, 0800 725 678, would be answered by a dedicated welfare call centre at Palmerston North City Council which would help set priorities and transfer all other regional enquiries through to Horizons.

Local enquiries would be passed to the relevant city or district council, which all had dedicated welfare teams within their incident management teams or emergency operations centres ready to provide support.