Today we are reporting 4,869 community cases, 370 current hospitalisations, and 16 deaths. The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 5,247 – last Friday, it was 6,075.
COVID-19 deaths Today we are sadly reporting the deaths of 16 people with COVID-19. All these deaths occurred in the past seven days, apart from one death on 11 May and one death on 23 April.
Today’s reported deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with COVID-19 to 1,390 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 12.
Of the people whose deaths we are reporting today; two were from Northland, six were from the Auckland region, one was from Waikato; one was from Taranaki; two were from the Wellington region; three were from Canterbury; and one was from South Canterbury.