Four more people have died with Covid-19 and there are 6380 new community cases in the country today, the Ministry of Health says.

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In a statement, the ministry said "Today we are sadly reporting the deaths of four people with Covid-19. The deaths being reported today include people who have died over the previous two days.

"These deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with Covid-19 to 687 and the 7-day rolling average of reported deaths is 12. Of the people whose deaths we are reporting today, two people were from Taranaki and two were from Canterbury. Two were in their 70s and two were over 90. Two were women and two were men."

"Today's seven-day rolling average of case numbers is 8085 - last Tuesday it was 7585. Although this is an increase from last week, the number of reported community cases is expected to continue to fluctuate day to day and the overall trend remains a reduction in reported cases."

In its update yesterday, there were 10 deaths and 5690 new community cases of Covid-19 in the latest reporting period, the ministry said.

Regarding the two deaths under nine years old reported a few days ago, the ministry said for one of them Covid-19 was not a contributing factor, and that death had now been removed from its tally.