Another 21 people with Covid-19 have died while there are 4811 new community cases of the virus, the Ministry of Health says.
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The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 4073 - last Tuesday, it was 5120.
In its daily update, the ministry said there were also 533 people with Covid-19 in hospital, including 12 in intensive care or a high dependency unit. That compared with 536 people in hospital with the virus, including 13 in ICU or a HDU yesterday.
The cases in hospital were in Northland: 25; Waitematā: 64; Counties Manukau: 61; Auckland: 62; Waikato: 77; Bay of Plenty: 17; Lakes: 8; Hawke's Bay: 38; MidCentral: 16; Whanganui: 8; Taranaki: 11; Tairāwhiti: 1; Wairarapa: 10; Capital & Coast: 15; Hutt Valley: 12; Nelson Marlborough: 9; Canterbury: 68; West Coast: 4; South Canterbury: 13 and Southern: 14.
The seven-day rolling average of hospitalisations is 556 - last Tuesday it was 645.
On the deaths being reported today, six were from the Auckland region, two were from Waikato, three were from Lakes, two were from Hawke's Bay, one was from Wellington region, two were from Nelson Marlborough, three were from Canterbury, one was from South Canterbury and one was from Southern.
Five were in their 70s, eight were in their 80s and eight were aged over 90. Of these people, 13 were women and eight were men.
There are now a total of 1782 deaths confirmed as attributable to Covid-19, either as the underlying cause of death or as a contributing factor.
In the past seven days there have been an average of 13 deaths confirmed each day as being attributable to Covid-19, the ministry said.
There were also 169 new Covid-19 cases reported at the border.
Earlier this week, epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker and computational biologist David Welch told RNZ that daily case numbers were showing a consistent downwards trend.
The number of new daily community cases dropped below the 3000 mark on Sunday for the first time since late February.