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A person is in a critical condition in Hawke's Bay Hospital with H1N1 Flu.
The District Health Board has just released a statement, saying Hawke's Bay has 11 confirmed cases of H1N1 and one person is in ICU.
Spokeswoman Anna Kirk says the person has been in intensive care since Friday.
Kirk says the DHB won't comment on whether the patient has other contributing factors to their illness.
It is New Zealand's second critical case of swine flu, with a 30-year-old Lower Hutt woman already in intensive care at Wellington Hospital.
Nine cases of H1N1 had been reported in Hawke's Bay in the last seven days, the Ministry of Health says.
The national total of confirmed cases of swine flu in New Zealand has reached 587 in New Zealand, with 64 more confirmed cases since Sunday.
Two hundred and eighty-six of the cases were current, ministry spokeswoman Julz Britnell says.
In the past week, another 70 cases of swine flu had been reported in Auckland, another 77 in Wellington and another 88 in Christchurch. Twelve new cases had been reported in Waikato, and eight in Bay of Plenty, she said.
The latest global total on June 26 had reached 59,814, with 263 deaths, the World Health Organisation website said.
