Today we are reporting 6,232 community cases, 390 current hospitalisations, and 14 deaths. The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 6,850 – last Friday, it was 6,960 COVID-19 deaths Today we are sadly reporting the deaths of 14 people with COVID-19.
Thirteen people have died in the past 8 days, while we are also reporting the historical death of a case late in 2020. This case had recovered at the time of death but was recently classified as having COVID-19 as a contributory cause of their death.
This will continue to happen occasionally due to the timing of the mortality coding process, particularly in instances where deaths where COVID-19 is a contributory cause, and the death falls outside of the 28 day period of testing positive for COVID.
Today’s reported deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with COVID-19 to 1,210 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 12.