There are 4024 new community cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand today and there have been a further nine deaths, the Ministry of Health says.
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The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 4939 - last Monday it was 5921.
Of the deaths reported today, two were from the Auckland region, two from the Bay of Plenty, two from Wellington, two from Canterbury and one from South Canterbury, the ministry said.
One person was in their 40s, one was in their 60s, one was in their 70s, four were in their 80s and two were aged over 90. Of these people, six were women and three were men.
The nine deaths take the he total number of publicly reported deaths with Covid-19 to 1415 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 13.
There are 391 current hospitalisations and three people in ICU.
There are 53 imported cases today.
Yesterday, the ministry reported the lowest number of new community cases since February, with fewer than 1000 cases reported in Auckland for the first time in months.