Today we are reporting 7,800 community cases, 401 hospitalisations and 17 deaths. The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers is 8,032 – last Friday it was 7,548.
COVID-19 deaths Today we are sadly reporting the deaths of 17 people with COVID-19. These deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with COVID-19 to 1,039 and the 7-day rolling average of reported deaths is 14.
Of the people whose deaths we are reporting today; three were from the Auckland region, three were from the Wellington region, two were from Northland, two were from Canterbury, two were from the Southern region, and one each from Waikato, Tairāwhiti, Mid Central, Hawke’s Bay, and Nelson Marlborough.
One person was in their 50s, one was in their 60s, four were in their 70s, five were in their 80s and six were over 90. Of these people, 13 were women and four were men.