Today we are reporting 6,291 community cases, 369 current hospitalisations, and 11 deaths. The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 6,841 – last Saturday, it was 6,924.
COVID-19 deaths Today we are sadly reporting the deaths of 11 people with COVID-19. Today’s reported deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with COVID-19 to 1,221 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 Waikato; one from Nelson-Marlborough; five from Canterbury; one from Southern.
Four people were in their 70s; three in their 80s and four were aged over 90. Of these people, eight were women and three were men.