Another 11 people have died with Covid-19 and another 6291 community cases have been reported today, the Ministry of Health says.
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The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 6841; last Saturday it was 6924, the ministry said.
"Today's reported deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with Covid-19 to 1221 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 12.
"Of the people whose deaths we are reporting today; two were from the Auckland region; two from Waikato; one from Nelson-Marlborough; five from Canterbury; one from Southern.
"Four people were in their 70s; three in their 80s and four were aged over 90. Of these people, eight were women and three were men."
There are 369 people in hospital, including eight in ICU.
By district health board, the hospitalisations are as follows: Northland: 6; Waitematā: 49; Counties Manukau: 32; Auckland: 67; Waikato: 26; Bay of Plenty: 8; Lakes: 3; Tairāwhiti: 3; Hawke's Bay: 9; Taranaki: 4; Whanganui: 1; MidCentral: 14; Wairarapa: 0; Hutt Valley: 15; Capital and Coast: 24; Nelson Marlborough: 13; Canterbury: 57; South Canterbury: 7; West Coast: 2; Southern: 29.
The average age of those who have been hospitalised is 62.
Yesterday, the Health Ministry reported a further 14 people with Covid-19 had died and 6232 new cases were identified in the community. Four cases of Omicron subvariant BA.5 and one case of BA.4 were detected within the community for the first time yesterday, the ministry reported.
Meanwhile, hospitals and emergency departments are under strain in some parts of the country due to a combination of winter illness and persistently high Covid-19 numbers.