There are 4841 new community cases of Covid-19 to report today including 300 in the South. The Ministry of Health revealed the seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 6904 – last Sunday, it was 7863. These deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with Covid-19 to 1149 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 14. Two people were their 60s, four were in their 70s, and three were in their 80s. **Please note that Bay of Plenty, Hawke’s Bay, and Southern hospital statistics are not yet available, therefore yesterday’s numbers are included.

Source: Otago Daily Times May 29, 2022 07:11 UTC