Today we are reporting 9,091 community cases, 411 hospitalisations and 5 deaths. The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers is 7,981 – last Thursday it was 7,533.
COVID-19 deaths Today we are sadly reporting the deaths of 5 people with COVID-19, all of whom have died in the past two days.
These deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with COVID-19 to 1,022 and the 7-day rolling average of reported deaths is 16.
Of the people whose deaths we are reporting today; one was from the Wellington region; one from Bay of Plenty, and three from Southern.