The Ministry of Health is reporting 15,540 new community cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand today.

Two Covid-related deaths have also been reported and there are 952 people in hospital, including 19 in intensive care.

Yesterday, the Ministry of Health announced that eight more people with Covid-19 had died in New Zealand and the number of community cases was 14,494.

Seven deaths of people with Covid-19 were announced on both Friday and Saturday.

Canterbury University epidemic modeller Michael Plank said that he is confident the number of Covid-19 cases in Auckland will edge down from here, but hospitalisations will be slower to decline.