34 people have died with COVID-19 in New Zealand, according to information released by the Ministry of Health.

These deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with COVID-19 to 303 and the 7-day rolling average of reported deaths to 15.

The deaths being reported today include people who have died over the past 10 days but were only recently notified to the Ministry.

Delays to reporting can be associated with people dying with, rather than of COVID-19, and COVID being discovered after they have died.  

Of the people whose deaths reported today, 2 were from Northland, 17 from the Auckland region, 2 from Waikato, 1 from the Bay of Plenty, 1 from the Lakes DHB, 2 from Hawke’s Bay, 5 from the Wellington region, 3 from Canterbury, and 1 from Southern.

One person was in their 30s, 1 person was in their 50s, 5 were in their 60s, 9 were in their 70s, 7 in their 80s and 11 were in their 90s.

17 were men and 17 were women.

In Canterbury, there are 64 people in hospital with Covid19.

There are 3134 people in Canterbury (including South Canterbury) with Covid19 according to the Ministry of Health.