There are 27 new deaths of people with Covid-19 and 7927 new community cases in New Zealand today, the Ministry of Health has reported.
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In a statement, the ministry also reported that there were 393 hospitalisations, including 12 in ICU.
On the deaths reported today, nine were from the Auckland region, three were from Waikato, one was from Lakes DHB area, one from Taranaki, one from MidCentral, five from the Wellington region, one from Nelson-Marlborough, four from Canterbury and two from the Southern region.
One person was in their 40s, two in their 60s, seven in 70s, nine in their 80s and eight were aged over 90.
The ministry said today's reported deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with Covid-19 to 1294 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 14.
"This is a very sad time for whānau and friends and our thoughts and condolences are with them."
Today's new community cases were in Northland (165), Auckland (2,239), Waikato (558), Bay of Plenty (261), Lakes (96), Hawke's Bay (273), MidCentral (319), Whanganui (125), Taranaki (223), Tairāwhiti (45), Wairarapa (58), Capital and Coast (877), Hutt Valley (372), Nelson Marlborough (337), Canterbury (1,177), South Canterbury (132), Southern (594), West Coast (73) and the location of three was unknown.
That brings the seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today to 6059 - last Thursday it was 6937.
There were also 96 new cases reported at the border today.
Yesterday, the ministry announced 7050 new community cases and 24 deaths of people with Covid-19. There were 361 hospitalisations.