[ad_1]
Ella Bates-Hermans/Stuff
The number of new Covid-19 cases reported in the past week was up nearly 3000 cases on the week prior.
There were 14,657 cases of Covid-19 reported across the country in the past week, officials say.
The Ministry of Health released its latest weekly update – covering the period from Monday, May 15 to Sunday, May 21 – on Monday afternoon.
The number of reported cases was up nearly 3000 cases (2918)compared to 11,739 the week prior – an increase of 24.8%.
As of midnight on Sunday, 247 people were in hospital with Covid-19, the same number as this time last week. Eight were in an intensive care or high dependency care unit.
The seven-day rolling average of new daily cases was 1891, up from 1672 last week.
There has been a recent increase in cases in the 5-14-year-old age group, with reported cases more than doubling since the school holidays, Stuff earlier reported.
MORE TO COME.
[ad_2]