• Covid-19: 316 new Hawke's Bay cases

Covid-19: 316 new Hawke's Bay cases

Hawke's Bay has 316 new cases, and 12 people in hospital.

The region's cases are among 9,390 new cases nationwide, 522 hospitalisations and 13 deaths, the Ministry of Health has reported. 

There are 57,138 active community cases of the virus in total. 

Today's 13 new deaths included one person aged between 10 and 19. The others were: five in their 70s, six in their 80s, and one person over 90. Four were male and nine were female.

One person was from Northland, six from the Auckland region, one from Waikato, one from Lakes, one from Whanganui, one from the Wellington region and two from the Canterbury region.

The total number of people in New Zealand who have died with Covid-19 is now 646.

The seven-day rolling average has fallen slightly from 8683 last Friday to 8166 today.

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