There are 6242 Covid-19 community cases and 11 Covid-related deaths to report on Monday, according to the Ministry of Health.
The numbers were reported over the last 24 hours.
There are 553 people in hospital with the virus, including 23 in an intensive care or high dependency unit.
The numbers are slightly up as compared to Sunday with 537 hospitalisations and 20 intensive care or high dependency unit cases reported yesterday.
The seven-day rolling average of new community case numbers continues to decline, with today's seven-day rolling average at 7986.
Health officials also announced 11 new Covid-related deaths. The ministry said age and location information of the people who died was unavailable.
The latest deaths take the total number of publicly reported deaths to 597. The seven-day rolling average of deaths is 14.
Newly reported community cases, detected through rapid antigen tests (RATs) and PCR tests are located in Northland (295), Auckland (1375), Waikato (463), Bay of Plenty (264), Lakes (105), Hawke’s Bay (187), MidCentral (269), Whanganui (94), Taranaki (223), Tairāwhiti (53), Wairarapa (69), Capital and Coast (425), Hutt Valley (226), Nelson Marlborough (178), Canterbury (1066), South Canterbury (136), Southern (746) and West Coast (63). The location of five cases are unknown.
There are also 41 new cases of Covid-19 reported from the border.
From Monday, health officials have said they will classify new border-related cases using more strict definitions as compared to before.
"From today, new arrivals into the country who test positive for Covid-19 within seven days of arrival will be reported as a border case - changing it from the previous definition of within 14 days," they said.
"Any recent arrivals testing positive for Covid-19 after seven days will now be reported as a community case reflecting where the most likely source of infection after being in the country for more than a week."
The ministry said 136 community cases were detected through RATs and 136 through PCR tests. A total of 1197 PCR tests were carried out in the last 24 hours, while 9594 RAT results were reported.
The number of active community cases is 55,869. They were identified in the past seven days but have not yet been classified as recovered.
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