There are 1653 new cases of Covid-19 in the community today and six further deaths, the Ministry of Health says.<\/p>\n
There are also 341 people in hospital, including three in ICU.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the ministry said the seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 2425 – last Monday it was 3655.<\/p>\n
The seven-day rolling average of hospitalisations today is 351 – last Monday it was 472.<\/p>\n
On the deaths being reported today, four were from the Auckland region, one was from the Wellington region and one was from Southern.<\/p>\n
One was in their 60s, one was in their 70s, two were in their 80s and two were aged over 90.<\/p>\n
Five were women and one was a male.<\/p>\n
There are now a total of 1869 deaths confirmed as attributable to Covid-19, either as the underlying cause of death or as a contributing factor.<\/p>\n
And in the past seven days there have been an average of six deaths confirmed each day as being attributable to Covid-19.<\/p>\n
“This is a very sad time for wh\u0101nau and friends of those who have died and our thoughts and condolences are with them.”<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Health no longer provides daily Covid-19 updates on Saturday and Sunday, and has published the daily case numbers for those days today.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, 1304 cases were detected in New Zealand.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, there were 2141 cases identified.<\/p>\n
Of the 1653 cases reported today, 96 people had recently travelled overseas.<\/p>\n
Over the weekend, there were 228 new cases at the border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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