Today we are reporting 5,499 community cases, 334 current hospitalisations, and 18 deaths. The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 4,873 – last Wednesday it was 5,777.
COVID-19 deaths Today we are sadly reporting the deaths of 18 people with COVID-19. Fifteen deaths of the reported occurred in the past three days, and three occurred since 13 June.
Today’s reported deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with COVID-19 to 1,450 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 13.
Of the people whose deaths we are reporting today; three were from the Auckland region, one from Waikato, one from MidCentral, five were from the Wellington region, two were from Nelson-Marlborough, three were from Canterbury, one was from South Canterbury, and two were from Southern.