Today we are reporting 5,549 community cases, 383 current hospitalisations, and 11 deaths. The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 5,132 – last Monday it was 4,939.
COVID-19 deaths Today we are sadly reporting the deaths of 11 people with COVID-19. They take the total number of publicly reported deaths with COVID-19 to 1,472 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 13.
Of the people whose deaths we are reporting today; two were from the Auckland region, one was from Waikato, one was from MidCentral, two were from Taranaki, one was from the Hutt Valley, three were from Canterbury, and one was from South Canterbury.
Two people were in their 60s, two were in their 70s, three were in their 80s and four were over 90. Of these people, five were male and six were female.