The Ministry of Health is reporting 10,320 community Covid cases, 744 current hospitalisations, and 34 deaths, three of which are from the Bay of Plenty.

The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 9367.

"Today we are sadly reporting the deaths of 34 people with Covid-19," says a ministry spokesperson.

"All these deaths occurred in the past six days."

Covid-19 hospitalisations

• Covid-19 Cases in hospital: total number 744: Northland: 23; Waitematā: 98; Counties Manukau: 57; Auckland: 102; Waikato: 67; Bay of Plenty: 44; Lakes: 24; Hawke's Bay: 30; MidCentral: 33; Whanganui: 17; Taranaki: 10; Tairawhiti: 7; Wairarapa: 7; Capital & Coast: 27; Hutt Valley: 12; Nelson Marlborough: 15; Canterbury:112; West Coast: 1; South Canterbury: 12; Southern: 46.
• Weekly Covid-19 Hospitalisations - 7 day rolling average: 766 (This time last week 643)
• Average age of current Covid-19 hospitalisations: 65
• Cases in ICU or HDU: 17
• Vaccination status of new admissions to hospital*: Unvaccinated or not eligible (61 cases); partially immunised

*These are new hospital admissions in the past 7 days prior to yesterday who had Covid at the time of admission or while in hospital, excluding hospitalisations that were admitted and discharged within 24hrs. This data is from Districts with tertiary hospitals: Auckland, Canterbury, Southern, Counties Manukau, Waikato, Capital & Coast, Waitemata and Northland.

Covid-19 vaccinations administered

• Vaccines administered to date: 4,028,962 first doses; 3,981,678 second doses; 33,777 third primary doses; 2,697,281 first booster doses: 204,752 second booster doses: 265,343 paediatric first doses and 141,438 paediatric second doses
• Vaccines administered yesterday: 25 first doses; 46 second doses; 82 third primary doses; 987 first booster doses; 13,249 second booster doses; 80 paediatric first doses and 497 paediatric second doses

More detailed information, including vaccine uptake by District, is available on the Ministry website.

Tests

• Number of PCR tests total (last 24 hours): 4,103
• Number of Rapid Antigen Tests reported total (last 24 hours): 17,853
• PCR tests rolling average (last 7 days): 3,327
• Number of Rapid Antigen Tests dispatched (last seven days as of 19 July 2022): 4.5m

Covid-19 cases

• Total number of new community cases: 10,320
• Number of new cases that have recently travelled overseas: 396
• Seven day rolling average of community cases: 9,367
• Seven day rolling average of community cases (as at same day last week): 9,710
• Number of active cases (total): 65,523 (cases identified in the past seven days and not yet classified as recovered)
• Confirmed cases (total): 1,519,314
• Location of new community cases by district over past 24 hours

You can also view a detailed breakdown of daily case numbers for each district since the beginning of the pandemic by clicking the ‘download' button on the right hand side of this page: New Zealand COVID-19 data.

Please note, the Ministry of Health's daily reported cases may differ slightly from those reported at a district or local public health unit level. This is because of different reporting cut off times and the assignment of cases between regions, for example when a case is tested outside their usual region of residence. Total numbers will always be the formal daily case tally as reported to the WHO.

Covid-19 deaths

Today's reported deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with Covid-19 to 1904 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 24.

Of the people whose deaths we are reporting today: 12 were from Auckland region, two were from Waikato, three were from Bay of Plenty, one was from Lakes, one was from Tairawhiti, one was from Hawke's Bay, three were from Taranaki, three were from Whanganui, one was from Wellington region, three were from Nelson Marlborough, one was from Canterbury, three were from Southern.

"Two were in their 50s, two were in their 60s, seven were in their 70s, 13 were in their 80s and ten were aged over 90. Of these people, 17 were women and 17 were men," says the ministry.

"This is a very sad time for whānau and friends and our thoughts and condolences are with them. Out of respect, we will be making no further comment on these."