Six more people have died from Covid and there are 4,429 new cases of the virus in the community, the health ministry says.
There are also 332 people in hospital with the virus, seven of whom are in intensive care.
Three of those who died were from Auckland, two were from Canterbury and one from Waikato. One person was in his fifties, one in his sixties, two in his seventies, and two over the age of 90. Five were male and one was female.
In total, it has now been publicly reported that 1,461 people have died from Covid-19. The seven-day moving average of reported deaths remains at 12.
There are 817 new cases in Canterbury and 47 people in hospitals with the virus in the area.
Location of new community cases: Northland (91), Auckland (409), Waikato (274), Bay of Plenty (129), Lakes (65), Hawke’s Bay (121), MidCentral (122), Whanganui (39), Taranaki ( 105), Tairāwhiti (20), Wairarapa (48), Capital and Coast (413), Hutt Valley (169), Nelson Marlborough (185), Canterbury (741), South Canterbury (76)South (356), West Coast (29), Unknown (4).
Cases in hospital: total number 332: Northland: 3; Waiting data: 52*; Provinces of Manukau: 36; Auckland: 41; Waikato: 29; Bay of Plenty: 2; Lakes: 14; Tairawhiti: 0; Hawke’s Bay: 7; Taranaki: 9; Whanganui: 1; Middle Central: 22; Wairarapa: 7; Hutt Valley: 12; Capital and coast: 21; Nelson Marlborough: 6; Canterbury: 37; South Canterbury: 10† West Coast: 0; South: 23.
Waitematā’s figure is from Friday and will be updated tomorrow.
The average age of those in hospital is 61.
There are also 86 new imported cases of Covid-19.
There are currently 34,357 active Covid cases – identified in the past seven days and not yet classified as recovered.
New Zealand has had a total of 1,301,319 confirmed cases of the virus.
† additional reporting ODT Online