Today we are reporting 7,068 community cases, 398 hospitalisations and 18 deaths. Today’s seven-day rolling average of community case numbers is 7,595 – last Saturday it was 7,512.
COVID-19 deaths Today we are sadly reporting the deaths of 18 people with COVID-19. The deaths being reported today include 10 people who have died over the past two days and eight people who has died since 28 April.
These deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with COVID-19 to 958 and the 7-day rolling average of reported deaths is 15.
Of the people whose deaths we are reporting today; two people were from Northland; four were from Auckland; three were from Waikato, one was was Lakes DHB, two were from MidCentral, two were from the Wellington region, one was form the West Coast, one was from Canterbury, one was from South Canterbury and one from Southern.