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Covid-19 update: Total death toll rises above 200, with 20,087 new community cases reported today

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23 March 2022, 12:04 AM

Covid-19 update: Total death toll rises above 200, with 20,087 new community cases reported today

New Zealand's total death toll of people with Covid-19 has now grown to more than 200, with 11 new deaths announced today, as well as 20,087 new community cases.


The new deaths bring the official total of people who have died with Covid-19 to 210.

There are also 960 people in hospital with the coronavirus.

Covid-19 data visualisations: NZ in numbers

There were 20,907 new community cases of Covid-19, a further 15 deaths and 1016 people in hospital in Aotearoa, the Ministry of Health announced yesterday. Twenty-five people were in ICU or HDU.

- more to come