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  •   Home > News > Health & Safety

    New Zealand has 6000 community Covid cases today -- and another nine deaths

    New Zealand has 6000 community Covid cases today -- and another nine deaths


    There are 363 people in hospital --14 in ICU.

    Today's deaths take the total publicly reported deaths with Covid to 1064 - and the 7-day rolling average is 12.

    One person was in their 30s, three in their 80s and five aged over 90.

    We have nearly 54-thousand active community cases.

    © 2026 Newstalk ZB, NZCity

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