Hawke's Bay has 231 new Covid cases today, with 14 in hospital.
Nationally there are 8436 new community cases of Covid-19 today, with the Ministry of Health reporting a further 18 Covid-related deaths.
There are also 389 people in hospital with the virus, including nine in intensive care.
This brings the total number of publicly reported Covid-19 deaths to 1172 and the seven-day rolling average of reported deaths is 14.
Of today's reported deaths, three were from Northland, two were from Auckland, one was from Waikato, one was from Taranaki, two were from Midcentral, two from Nelson Marlborough, three from Canterbury, two from West Coast and two from the Southern region.