Today we are reporting 7,441 community cases, 398 hospitalisations and 29 deaths. Today’s seven-day rolling average of community case numbers is 7,548 – last Friday it was 7,555.
COVID-19 deaths Today we are sadly reporting the deaths of 29 people with COVID-19. The deaths being reported today include 14 people who have died in the previous two days, and an additional 15 people who died between 24 March and 7 May.
These deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with COVID-19 to 940 and the 7-day rolling average of reported deaths is 14.
Of the people whose deaths we are reporting today; six were from Auckland; one from Waikato, one from Taranaki, one from Tairawhiti, two from Hawkes Bay, two from Bay of Plenty, one from Whanganui, four from the Greater Wellington region, one from Nelson Marlborough, six from Canterbury, and four from Southern.