4,400 Covid-19 cases on Sunday, 8 deaths recorded

There are 4,400 new community Covid-19 cases in New Zealand, the Ministry of Health has announced on Sunday. The numbers were reported over the last 24 hours. There are 371 people in hospital with the virus, two more than on Saturday, 6 people are in ICU and 8 have died. The number of new cases at the border is 50. Sunday's reported deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with Covid-19 to 1,229 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 12. Of the people whose deaths are reported; two were from the Auckland region; two from Hawke's Bay; two from Canterbury; one from Taranaki; one from Nelson-Marlborough.