“This supports the trend we are seeing across the seven-day rolling average.
The ministry said it was “encouraging” to see case numbers continuing to decline. Hospitalisations are declining, said Bloomfield, particularly in the Northern region.Īnother 15,250 new community cases have been registered overnight.
A slight discrepancy worth noting: the ministry’s daily update lists ICU figures as being two higher, 28. There are now 830 people in hospital with Covid-19, including 26 in intensive care. Two people were in their 50s, four people were in their 60s, three people were in their 70s, six in their 80s and seven were over-90. The deaths being reported today include people who have died over the past four weeks but were only recently notified to the Ministry of Health. Of these, one was from Northland, ten were from the Auckland region, one was from Waikato, two were from Bay of Plenty, two were from the Lakes DHB, two were from the Wellington region, and four were from Canterbury. New Zealand still has “by far” the lowest cumulative death rate in the OECD, Bloomfield said, and one of the lowest in the world.
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