The Ministry of Health will provide an update on the Covid-19 outbreak in Aotearoa shortly.
The update is expected around 1 p.m. via a statement.
On Saturday there were 9241 new community affairs and 761 people hospitalized with Covid-19.
Fifteen people were in intensive care or high dependency wards.
READ MORE:
* Covid-19: 9,241 new community cases, 29 further deaths reported
* ‘We are going to pay for this’: End in sight for general practitioners under pressure from Covid, flu
SUNGMI KIM/Things
On Saturday, 9,241 new cases of Covid-19 were reported.
The ministry also announced 29 deaths of people with the virus, bringing the total number of publicly reported deaths from Covid-19 to 1,805.
In the 1:00 p.m. updates, the Ministry of Health releases a total number of people who have died “with Covid” in a certain period of time. That doesn’t necessarily mean the virus killed those people, it just means they tested positive within 28 days of their death or immediately after.
The ministry will later provide more information about the cause of these deaths on his website. You can read how this works here here.
The seven-day moving average of reported deaths was 20, up from 16 the previous Saturday.
The number of hospital admissions also increased, with a seven-day moving average of 727 compared to 520.
The increase in cases and hospitalizations “emphasizes the importance of everyone doing the basics right to help prevent infection and serious illness,” the ministry said.
People should stay at home if they are sick do a quick antigen test (RAT) and upload the results to My Covid record.