Today we are reporting 5,130 community cases, 332 current hospitalisations, and 8 deaths. The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 5914 – last Friday it was 6,841.
COVID-19 deaths Today we are sadly reporting the deaths of 8 people with COVID-19. All these people died within in the past 5 days.
Today’s reported deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with COVID-19 to 1,311 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 13.
Of the people whose deaths we are reporting today; two were from Bay of Plenty; one was from MidCentral; one was from the Wellington region; two were from Canterbury; one was from South Canterbury; and one was from Southern.