9392 new cases and 9 deaths

There are 9392 new community cases of Covid-19 and nine further deaths, the Ministry of Health confirmed yesterday.

There are 398 people in hospital with the virus and seven are in an intensive care unit.

The Government released the latest Covid-19 case numbers in a 1pm statement yesterday.

The update comes after 7970 new community cases and 28 deaths were reported on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, New Zealand passed 1 million confirmed cases of Covid-19, with experts saying the true number of infections could be two to four times higher.