Today we are reporting 7,050 community cases, 361 current hospitalisations, and 24 deaths. The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 6,035 – last Wednesday, it was 6,893.
COVID-19 deaths Today we are sadly reporting the deaths of 24 people with COVID-19. Twelve of these people have died in the past 4 days, and 12 have died since 25 April.
Today’s reported deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with COVID-19 to 1,267 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, two were from Bay of Plenty, one was from Lakes DHB area, one from Taranaki; one from Hawke’s Bay; one from MidCentral, one from the Wellington region; three from Canterbury; five from Southern.