12 Aug 2022

Covid-19 update: 4126 new community cases, 13 further deaths, 549 people in hospital

2:47 pm on 12 August 2022

There are 4126 new cases of Covid-19 in the community today and 13 new deaths of people with the virus, the Ministry of Health says.

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The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers continues to fall at 4581, down from last week's 5812.

There are 549 people in hospital with Covid-19.

Yesterday there were 4818 new cases in the community.

There have now been 1,666,801 cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand.

The number of deaths confirmed as attributable to the coronavrius is now 1733.

The 13 people with Covid-19 whose deaths were reported include five people in their 70s, five in their 80s and three aged over 90. Eight were women and five were men.

One was from Northland, three were from Auckland region, one was from Waikato, one was from Bay of Plenty, one was from Tairawhiti, one was from Hawke's Bay, one was from Taranaki, one was from Canterbury, three were from Southern.

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