How many people in the community have Covid-19? The Ministry of Health will provide an update at around 1pm.
The Ministry of Health says there are 7746 new community cases of Covid-19 on Saturday and 22 new deaths.
There has been a downturn in numbers suggesting the second wave has peaked.
On Friday, there were 8728 new community cases of Covid-19 and a further 26 deaths of people with the virus.
On Saturday, the seven-day rolling average of community cases is 8703, down more than 1000 on the 9984 at the same time last week. The number of people in hospital is 759.
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The deaths of 22 people with Covid-19 have been recorded, with the deaths occurring since June 19.
Six of these people were from the Auckland region, three from Bay of Plenty, two from Nelson-Marlborough, two from Canterbury, three from Southern, and one each from Waikato, Lakes, Hawke’s Bay, Taranaki, MidCentral and Wellington regions.
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Of the people who died, two were in their 50s, one was in their 60s, five were in their 70s, six were in their 80s and eight were aged over 90. Of these people, 10 were women and 12 were men.
Saturday’s reported deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with Covid-19 to 1976 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 25.
Earlier in the week, the ministry announced changes to how Covid-19 deaths are reported. Instead of reporting all people who died within 28 days of a Covid-19 infection, those who died because of the virus, or for whom Covid-19 was a contributing factor in their death, will be reported formally.
While officials will continue to report additional deaths with Covid-19 in the daily updates, the focus on reporting total Covid-19 deaths will shift to cases where deaths can be wholly or partly “attributed” to the virus.
While the numbers of new community cases continue to fall, the seven-day rolling average of people in hospital with the virus is climbing.
The seven-day rolling average of hospitalisations is 764, up from 727 last Saturday.
Those in hospital include 19 patients needing emergency care or high dependency. The average age of hospitalisations is 67.
On Saturday, the number of new cases that have recently travelled overseas is 353.
The total number of active cases is 60,886.
New Zealand has been in the midst of a second wave, fuelled by the more transmissible BA.5 subvariant.
Hospitals at the top and bottom of the country have been restricting visitors due to virus transmission, and there were a record number of people with Covid-19 in hospital in Canterbury, with 155 patients hospitalised on Thursday.
The Government recently announced new measures to expand access to free rapid antigen tests (RATs), masks and Covid-19 antivirals.
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