Today we are reporting 5,836 new community cases, 403 current hospitalisations, and five deaths in the past three days. The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 6,881 – last Monday, it was 7,712.
COVID-19 deaths Today we are sadly reporting the deaths of five people with COVID-19. These deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with COVID-19 to 1,154 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 13.
Of the people whose deaths we are reporting today; two were from the Auckland region, one was from Taranaki, one from Canterbury, and one was the Southern region.
One person was in their 70s, three were in their 80s and one was over 90. Of these people, three were male and two were female.