Professor Ian Town says there is still much to be learned about Omicron and its variants. Video / Mark Mitchell
There are more than 350 people in hospital with Covid-19 and nine more deaths, the Ministry of Health has reported today.
The ministry said there are 4402 new community cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand.
Of the 354 people in hospital with the virus, eight are in intensive care.
Today'snine reported deaths take the total number of publicly reported New Zealand deaths during the pandemic to 1320.
Of the people whose deaths were reported today, one was from Northland, three from Auckland, two from Wellington region, another two from Canterbury, and one was from the South Island's Southern DHB region.
Today's numbers come ahead of a possible review of the country's traffic light pandemic response settings as the country continues to grapple with the Omicron variant.
The seven-day rolling average of community cases now sits at 5919, down from 6779 at the same time last week.
