The ministry said there are 4402 new community cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand. Today's nine reported deaths take the total number of publicly reported New Zealand deaths during the pandemic to 1320. The seven-day rolling average of community cases now sits at 5919, down from 6779 at the same time last week. It was still unclear which of the current Omicron variants was most likely to cause severe illness. Yesterday, the country recorded 5202 new community cases, 332 hospitalisations, and eight deaths of people with Covid-19.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 12, 2022 04:12 UTC