There are 10,205 new Covid-19 community cases in New Zealand, the Ministry of Health has announced on Monday.
The numbers were reported over the last 24 hours.
9 more people with the virus have died over the last 3 days, the ministry has reported today.
These deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths with Covid-19 to 405 and the 7-day rolling average of reported deaths is 20.
Of the new deaths reported today, 1 person was from the Auckland region, 3 from Waikato, 2 from Lakes, 2 from the Wellington region, and 1 from Southern.
One person was in their 50s, one in their 60s, one in their 70s, two in their 80s, and four were over-90.
Five were men and four were women.
Today's figures come as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern this afternoon will reveal if there are any changes to traffic light settings.
There are 734 people in hospital with the virus, 25 of those are in intensive care or a high dependency unit.
This is an increase of 44 on Sunday's hospitalisations of 690, with 1 fewer person in ICU compared with 24 hours ago.
Monday's positive cases, detected through rapid antigen tests (RATs) and PCR tests, are located in Northland (407), Auckland (1,835), Waikato (878), Bay of Plenty (571), Lakes (267), Hawke’s Bay (454), MidCentral (531), Whanganui (249), Taranaki (357), Tairāwhiti (125), Wairarapa (92), Capital and Coast (745), Hutt Valley (390), Nelson Marlborough (398), Canterbury (1,664), South Canterbury (207), Southern (958), West Coast (76); Unknown (1).
There were also 33 new cases identified at the border.
The ministry said 10,084 of Monday's cases were detected through RATs and 121 through PCR tests. A total of 1634 PCR tests were carried out in the last 24 hours, while 18,818 RAT results were reported.
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