The Ministry of Health is today reporting 7746 new community cases of Covid-19, 759 current hospitalisations, and 22 deaths.

Three deaths are from the Bay of Plenty and one from the Lakes region. There are 41 people in Bay of Plenty hospitals and 13 in Lakes hospitals.

The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers today is 8,703.

'Today we are sadly reporting the deaths of 22 people with Covid-19,” says a Ministry of Health spokesperson.

These deaths occurred in the period since June 19.

Covid-19 hospitalisations

• Covid-19 Cases in hospital: total number 759: Northland: 19; Waitematā: 94; Counties Manukau: 62; Auckland: 97; Waikato: 65; Bay of Plenty: 41; Lakes: 13; Hawke's Bay: 32; MidCentral: 38; Whanganui: 11; Taranaki: 18; Tairāwhiti: 2; Wairarapa: 8; Capital & Coast: 33; Hutt Valley: 29; Nelson Marlborough: 13; Canterbury:137; West Coast: 0; South Canterbury: 12; Southern: 35.
• Weekly COVID-19 Hospitalisations - 7 day rolling average: 764 (This time last week 727)
• Average age of current COVID-19 hospitalisations: 67
• Cases in ICU or HDU: 19
• Vaccination status of new admissions to hospital*: Unvaccinated or not eligible (56 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: 4,029,065 first doses; 3,981,814 second doses; 33,914 third primary doses; 2,700,339 first booster doses: 243,478 second booster doses: 265,622 paediatric first doses and 143,096 paediatric second doses
• Vaccines administered yesterday: 31 first doses; 43 second doses; 50 third primary doses; 968 first booster doses; 13,340 second booster doses; 109 paediatric first doses and 683 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): 3,652
• Number of Rapid Antigen Tests reported total (last 24 hours): 14,318
• PCR tests rolling average (last 7 days): 3,430
• Number of Rapid Antigen Tests dispatched (last seven days as of 21 July 2022): 4.5 million

Covid-19 cases

• Total number of new community cases: 7,746
• Number of new cases that have recently travelled overseas: 353
• Seven day rolling average of community cases: 8,703
• Seven day rolling average of community cases (as at same day last week): 9,984
• Number of active cases (total): 60,886 (cases identified in the past seven days and not yet classified as recovered)
• Confirmed cases (total): 1,546,211
• 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 1,976 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 25.

'Of the people whose deaths we are reporting today: six were from Auckland region, one was from Waikato, three were from Bay of Plenty, one was from Lakes, one was from Hawke's Bay, one was from Taranaki, one was from MidCentral, one was from the Wellington region, two were from Nelson Marlborough, two were from Canterbury, three were from Southern,” says a Ministry of Health spokesperson.

Two were in their 50s, one was in their 60s, five were in their 70s, six were in their 80s and eight were aged over 90. Of these people, 10 were women and 12 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.”