Two further Covid-related deaths in Hawke's Bay; 307 cases
Hawke's Bay has reported two further Covid-related deaths and 307 new cases.
In a statement, the Ministry of Health said a further 32 deaths related to the virus have been reported nationwide.
The total number of publicly reported deaths with Covid-19 is 1017 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 17.
Of the people whose deaths were reported today, two were from Northland, nine from the Auckland region, two from Bay of Plenty, two from Taranaki, one from Tairawhiti, four from MidCentral, two from Hawke's Bay, three from the Wellington region, one from Nelson-Marlborough, four from Canterbury and two from the Southern region.
One person was in their 20s; four people were in their 40s; two in their 50s; four in their sixties; nine in their 70s; nine in their 80s and three were aged over 90.
Of these people, ten were women and twenty-two were men.
"This is a very sad time for whānau and friends and our thoughts and condolences are with them at this time," the Ministry of Health said.
The Ministry today released an update on the reporting of Covid-related deaths.
This included a breakdown of people who have died with Covid-19 as an underlying cause of death and those who have died with Covid-19 as a contributing cause of death.
The locations of today's community cases are: Northland (273), Auckland (3297), Waikato (742), Bay of Plenty (307), Lakes (173), Hawke's Bay (304), MidCentral (318), Whanganui (124), Taranaki (283), Tairāwhiti (82), Wairarapa (91), Capital and Coast (642), Hutt Valley (241), Nelson Marlborough (314), Canterbury (1368), South Canterbury (155), Southern (737) and the West Coast (112).
