Photo / FileThere are 5647 new community cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand today. A person who travelled from South Africa to New Zealand has been confirmed as having the BA.5 variant of Omicron. Of today's reported deaths, two people were from Canterbury and one from Mid Central. Today's figures take the total number of publicly reported deaths with Covid-19 to 860. The seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 16.

Source: New Zealand Herald May 08, 2022 01:29 UTC