The Ministry of Health is today reporting 6910 new community cases of Covid-19, 836 current hospitalisations, 27 people in ICU and 16 deaths. Two of the deaths are from the Lakes region.

There are 44 people in Bay of Plenty hospitals and 11 in Lakes hospitals.

The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 8,498.

'Today we are sadly reporting the deaths of 16 people with Covid-19,” says a Ministry of Health spokesperson. 'All these deaths occurred in the past three days.”

Covid-19 hospitalisations

• Covid-19 Cases in hospital: total number 836: Northland: 21; Waitematā: 108; Counties Manukau: 77; Auckland: 98; Waikato: 86; Bay of Plenty: 44; Lakes: 11; Hawke's Bay: 30; MidCentral: 46; Whanganui: 14; Taranaki: 17; Tairawhiti: 3; Wairarapa: 7; Capital & Coast/Hutt: 60; Nelson Marlborough: 18; Canterbury/West Coast: 148; South Canterbury: 7; Southern: 41.
• Weekly COVID-19 Hospitalisations - 7 day rolling average: 768 (This time last week 753)
• Average age of current COVID-19 hospitalisations: 65
• Cases in ICU or HDU: 27
• Vaccination status of new admissions to hospital*: Unvaccinated or not eligible (60 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, Waitematā and Northland.

Covid-19 vaccinations administered

• Vaccines administered to date: 4,029,095 first doses; 3,981,856 second doses; 33,920 third primary doses; 2,701,455 first booster doses: 250,809 second booster doses: 265,732 paediatric first doses and 143,791 paediatric second doses.
• Vaccines administered yesterday: 7 first doses; 10 second doses; 1 third primary doses; 296 first booster doses; 1,799 second booster doses; 33 paediatric first doses and 197 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): 2,352
• Number of Rapid Antigen Tests reported total (last 24 hours): 11,088
• PCR tests rolling average (last 7 days): 3,453
• Number of Rapid Antigen Tests dispatched (last seven days as of 24 July 2022): 2.7 million

Covid-19 cases

• Total number of new community cases: 6,910
• Number of new cases that have recently travelled overseas: 387
• Seven day rolling average of community cases: 8,498
• Seven day rolling average of community cases (as at same day last week): 9,697
• Number of active cases (total): 59,445 (cases identified in the past seven days and not yet classified as recovered)
• Confirmed cases (total): 1,559,072
• 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 2,006 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 24.
• Of the people whose deaths we are reporting today: one was from Auckland region, one was from Waikato, two were from Lakes, one was from Tairawhiti, one was from Hawke's Bay, four were from Taranaki, one was from Whanganui, two were from Wellington region, three were from Southern.
• Six were in their 70s, five were in their 80s and five were aged over 90. Of these people, five were women and 11 were men.

'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,” says a Ministry of Health spokesperson.