New Zealand has reached the tragic milestone of 1000 people who have died with COVID-19 after the Ministry of Health revealed there were another 32 died with the virus on Wednesday.
New Zealand recorded 9570 new community cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday. There are 425 people in hospital, nine of whom are in the ICU.
The seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 17.
Of the people whose deaths reported today; two people were from Northland; nine from the Auckland region; two from Bay of Plenty; two from Taranaki; one from Tairawhiti; four from MidCentral; two from Hawke's Bay; three from the Wellington region; one from Nelson-Marlborough; four from Canterbury and two from Southern.
The seven-day rolling average of community case numbers is 8024 - last Wednesday it was 7533, the ministry said.