Another 13 people with Covid-19 have died and another 7870 community cases have been notified, the Ministry of Health says.
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In a statement, the ministry said 11 of the deaths being reported were in the past 48 hours and two were in January this year.
It said four were from the Auckland region, four were from Canterbury, two from Southern, and one each from Taranaki, Hawke's Bay, and Wellington.
Four people were in their 60s, one was in their 70s, five were in their 80s, and three were aged over 90.
"These deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with Covid-19 to 1197 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 14," the ministry said.
"One previously announced death has been removed from our totals, as it was reclassified as not a Covid-19 case."
Today there are 393 people in hospital with Covid-19, eight of whom are in ICU.
The ministry said the new community cases were in Northland (197), Auckland (2,456), Waikato (615), Bay of Plenty (237), Lakes (107), Hawke's Bay (232), MidCentral (296), Whanganui (95), Taranaki (204), Tairāwhiti (49), Wairarapa (59), Capital and Coast (680), Hutt Valley (247), Nelson Marlborough (332), Canterbury (1,225), South Canterbury (132), Southern (617), West Coast (86) and the location of four of them were unknown.
The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 6937 - last Thursday it was 7095.
There were also 95 new Covid-19 cases at the border.
Yesterday the Ministry of Health reported 13 deaths of people with Covid-19 and 8182 more community cases in New Zealand.
Some teachers have reported feeling angry and unsafe because of the risk of catching Covid-19 in their classrooms with some saying they are worried about the lack of students wearing masks and others the lack of air filters in their classrooms.