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In a statement, the Ministry of Health said there were 377 people in hospital, with seven in ICU.
All of the 23 deaths occurred in the last 24 days, the ministry said.
"Today's reported deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with Covid-19 to 1348 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 15.
"One person was from Northland, five were from the Auckland region, three from Waikato, one from the Lakes DHB region, four from Taranaki, two from MidCentral, one from Hawke's Bay; two from the Wellington region; one from South Canterbury and three from Southern.
"One person was in their 50s; three were in their 70s; 11 were in their 80s; and eight were aged over 90. Of these people, 15 were women and eight were men."
The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 5983 - last Tuesday it was 6202.
Locations of new cases: Northland (191), Auckland (1,800), Waikato (406), Bay of Plenty (240), Lakes (90), Hawke's Bay (186), MidCentral (233), Whanganui (72), Taranaki (179), Tairāwhiti (42), Wairarapa (77), Capital and Coast (510), Hutt Valley (261), Nelson Marlborough (243), Canterbury (904), South Canterbury (92), Southern (541 551), West Coast (54), Unknown (2).
In addition, there were 82 new imported cases today.
There are 41,863 active community cases - all of which were identified in the past seven days - and the total of confirmed cases in Aotearoa is 1,242,660.
Yesterday the ministry reported 4413 new cases in the community, and five deaths.
Meanwhile, Māori health experts fear an inequity crisis could be looming with long Covid, and not enough is being done to avert it.
