Today we are reporting 4,400 community cases, 371 current hospitalisations, and eight deaths. The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 6,779 – last Sunday, it was 6,904.
COVID-19 deaths Today we are sadly reporting the deaths of eight people with COVID-19. Today’s reported deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with COVID-19 to 1,229 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 12.
Of the people whose deaths we are reporting today; two were from the Auckland region; two from Hawke’s Bay; one was from Taranaki, two were from Canterbury and one was from Nelson-Marlborough.
Two people were in their 70s; three in their 80s and three were aged over 90. Of these people, six were women and two were men.