Today we are reporting 8,435 community cases, 327 hospitalisations and 15 deaths. The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers is 7,507– last Tuesday it was 7,795.
COVID-19 deaths Today we are sadly reporting the deaths of 15 people with COVID-19, all of whom died in the past four days. These deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with COVID-19 to 1,079 and the 7-day rolling average of reported deaths is 13.
Of the people whose deaths we are reporting today; three were from the Auckland region, one was from Waikato, one was from Taranaki, two were from the Wellington region, one was from Nelson-Marlborough, four were from Canterbury and three were from Southern.
One person was in their 40s, two were in their 60s, one was in their 70s, three were in their 80s and eight were aged over 90.