Today we are reporting 9,173 community cases, 385 hospitalisations and 14 deaths. Today’s seven-day rolling average of community case numbers is 7,927 – last Tuesday it was 7,943.
COVID-19 deaths Today we are sadly reporting the deaths of 14 people with COVID-19. These deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with COVID-19 to 876 and the 7-day rolling average of reported deaths is 14.
Of the people whose deaths we are reporting today; one person was from Northland, two from Auckland, one from Waikato, one from MidCentral, one from Hawke’s Bay, one from the Wellington region; six from Canterbury and one from Southern.
Six were in their 70s; three in their 80s and five were aged over 90. Nine were women and five were men. This is a very sad time for whānau and friends and our thoughts and condolences are with them at this time.