304 new virus cases reported

Hawke’s Bay had two more deaths and 304 new Covid cases yesterday.

This brought the region’s total number of deaths to 18. There were also 16 people in Hawke’s Bay Hospital.

Nationally there were 9570 new community cases of Covid19 in New Zealand yesterday.

The Ministry of Health reported a further 32 Covidrelated deaths, with 425 people in hospital with the virus, including nine in intensive care.

The deaths reported yesterday included people who had died during the previous six weeks, since April 5.

Of the deaths, two were from Northland, nine from the Auckland region, two from Bay of Plenty, two from Taranaki, one from Tairawhiti, four from MidCentral, two from Hawke’s Bay, three from the Wellington region, one from NelsonMarlborough, four from Canterbury and two from the Southern region.

One person was in their 20s, four people were in their 40s, two in their 50s, four in their 60s, nine in their 70s, nine in their 80s and three were aged over 90.

Ten were women and 22 were men.

“This is a very sad time for whānau and friends and our thoughts and condolences are with them at this time,” the ministry said in a statement.