There are 3805 new Covid-19 community cases in New Zealand, the Ministry of Health has announced on Friday.
The cases were reported over the last 24 hours.
There are 466 people in hospital with the virus, seven fewer than Thursday.
Eight people are in an intensive care or high dependency unit, two fewer than 24 hours ago.
The average age of those in hospital is 64.
The seven-day rolling average of hospitalisations is 515, down on 609 a week ago, and down on 527 24 hours ago.
Sixteen more people with the virus have died.
Of the 16 people who have died, one was aged in their 60s, two were in their 70s, 10 were in their 80s and three were aged over 90.
Twelve were men and four were women.
Three were from South Canterbury, two each were from Bay of Plenty, Taranaki, the Wellington region and Canterbury, and one each were from Northland, Tairāwhiti, Whanganui, the West Coast and the Southern District.
There are now a total of 1815 deaths confirmed as attributable to Covid-19, either as the underlying cause of death or as a contributing factor.
The seven-day rolling average increase in total deaths attributable to Covid-19 is now 11.
The seven-day rolling average of cases is 3876, down on 4581 a week ago, and down on 3928 24 hours ago.
Friday's positive cases, detected through rapid antigen tests (RATs) and PCR tests, are located in Northland (117), Auckland (1439), Waikato (378), Bay of Plenty (166), Lakes (55), Hawke's Bay (105), MidCentral (133), Whanganui (60), Taranaki (118), Tairāwhiti (48), Wairarapa (44), Capital and Coast (230), Hutt Valley (117), Nelson Marlborough (102), Canterbury (411), West Coast (27), South Canterbury (45) and Southern (208).
The location of two cases is unknown.
A total of 3631 PCR tests were carried out in the last 24 hours, while 9418 RAT results were reported.
The number of active community cases is 27,122. They were identified in the past seven days but have not yet been classified as recovered.
An additional 144 people with Covid-19 had recently travelled overseas and arrived back in New Zealand, the ministry said.
On Thursday, 4540 community cases were announced.
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