Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will address New Zealand at 12pm with an update on the next steps the Government is taking against COVID-19 coronavirus.

Ardern will be following Director-General of the Ministry of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield who will be speaking at 11am from Parliament. Dr Bloomfield will also be giving an update at 12:30pm.

Newshub will be covering it live from 11am on Three and newshub.co.nz.

New Zealand now has 39 cases of the illness, all of which are connected to international travel and so far there has been no community transmission.

The ministry announced the largest jump in coronavirus cases so far with 11 more cases confirmed on Friday.