Twenty-four people people have died with COVID-19, taking New Zealand's total virus death toll to 1267, the ministry said. There are currently 361 COVID-19 cases in hospital, with 14 in ICU.
New Zealand's seven-day rolling average of community case numbers on Wednesday was 6035 - last Wednesday it?was 6893.
The new community cases being reported today were in Northland (209), Auckland (1,962), Waikato (508), Bay of Plenty (271), Lakes (116), Hawke's Bay (201), MidCentral (314), Whanganui (106), Taranaki (204), Tairawhiti (30), Wairarapa (64), Capital and Coast (620), Hutt Valley (325), Nelson Marlborough (280), Canterbury (1,075), South Canterbury (93), Southern (587), West Coast (82) and the location of three were unknown.
There were also 70 new cases at the border today.