Today we are reporting 8,270 community cases and five deaths. There are 572 people in hospital and 19 people in ICU. The seven-day rolling average of case numbers continues to decline, with today's seven-day rolling average at 7,585 – last Tuesday it was 9,731.
The number of reported community cases is expected to continue to fluctuate day to day, but the overall trend remains an overall reduction in reported cases.
COVID-19 deaths Today we are sadly reporting the deaths of five people with COVID-19. These deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with COVID-19 to 602 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 12.
Of the people whose deaths we are reporting today, one was from the Auckland region, one was from Waikato, two were from MidCentral and one was from Tairāwhiti.