Covid-19: 361 new Hawke's Bay cases
Hawke's Bay has 361 new cases of Covid-19 and 17 people in hospital.
Nationally there are 9843 new community cases of Covid-19, with a further 8 Covid-related deaths.
There are 421 people in hospital with the virus, 10 of whom are in intensive care, the Ministry of Health said in a statement.
Today's number of deaths takes the total number of publicly reported deaths with Covid-19 to 986.
Of the deaths reported today three people were from the Southern region; two were from Auckland, two were from Northland, and one was from Canterbury.
One person was aged in their 60s, four people were in their 70s, and three were aged over 90.
Four were women and four were men.
The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 7795. Last Tuesday the average was 7927.
The location of today's new community cases is: Northland (288), Auckland (3,442), Waikato (792), Bay of Plenty (342), Lakes (185), Hawke's Bay (361), MidCentral (339), Whanganui (105), Taranaki (291), Tairāwhiti (90), Wairarapa (87), Capital and Coast (600), Hutt Valley (249), Nelson Marlborough (320), Canterbury (1,305), South Canterbury (177), Southern (781), West Coast (83). The location of six people is unknown.
There are also 63 imported cases reported today. Imported cases are people who have arrived from overseas and are most likely isolating in the community.
