Today we are reporting 8,028 community cases, 383 current hospitalisations, and 16 deaths. The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 5,480 – last Tuesday it was 4,878.
The increase in case numbers today is not unusual after a long weekend. It will take more time before we are able to determine if this is part of a trend.
COVID-19 deaths Today we are sadly reporting the deaths of 16 people with COVID-19. All these deaths occurred within the past seven days.
They take the total number of publicly reported deaths with COVID-19 to 1,488 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 12.