Today we are reporting 6,000 community cases, 363 hospitalisations and 9 deaths. The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers is 7,712 – last Monday it was 7,702.
COVID-19 deaths Today we are sadly reporting the deaths of 9 people with COVID-19. These deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with COVID-19 to 1,064 and the 7-day rolling average of reported deaths is 12.
Of the people whose deaths we are reporting today; one was from the Auckland region, two were from Taranaki, two were from Bay of Plenty, two were from Wellington and two were from Canterbury.
One person was in their 30s, three were in their 80s and five were in aged over 90. Of these people, eight were female and one was male.