Another nine people have died, as the total of recorded deaths with Covid-19 deaths in New Zealand nears 1000.<\/p>\n
There have now been 911 deaths, and the country has recorded 9392 new community cases of the coronavirus today, Ministry of Health says.<\/p>\n
“The deaths being reported today include 8 people who have died over the past two days and one person who has died since 5 May. These deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with Covid-19 to 911 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 13.<\/p>\n
“Of the people whose deaths we are reporting today; four were from Auckland; and five were from Canterbury. One person was their 70s; two in their 80s and six were aged over 90. Of these people, four were women and five were men.”<\/p>\n
Today’s seven-day rolling average of community case numbers is 7533 compared to last Thursday’s 7684.<\/p>\n
There are 398 people in hospital, including seven in intensive care – compared with 368 people in hospital and 10 people in ICU yesterday.<\/p>\n
The figures are contained in the ministry’s latest daily update.<\/p>\n
Yesterday the ministry announced that\u00a0another 28 people with Covid-19 had died<\/a>\u00a0and there were another 7970 new cases.<\/p>\n