Today we are reporting 6,369 community cases, 362 hospitalisations and 13 deaths. The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 6,924 – last Saturday, it was 7,972.
COVID-19 deaths Today we are sadly reporting the deaths of 13 people with COVID-19. These deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with COVID-19 to 1,140 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 14.
Of the people whose deaths we are reporting today; five were from the Auckland region, two were from Canterbury, one was from South Canterbury, one was from Nelson Marlborough, two were from the Wellington region, one was from Bay of Plenty, and one was from Southern.
Two people were their 60s, five were in their 70s, three were in their 80s, and three were aged over 90. Of these people, five were female and eight were male.