WELLINGTON, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand recorded 20,802 new community cases of COVID-19 and 41 more deaths from the pandemic over the past week, the country's Ministry of Health said on Monday.
On average, new cases per day reached 2,967 in the last week. The country has seen the number of daily cases going down steadily from over 10,000 cases nationwide in early July.
With the fresh cases, New Zealand has reported 1,852,595 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 2,119 COVID-19-related deaths since the pandemic hit the country in early 2020, the ministry said.
Currently, 322 COVID-19 patients are being treated in hospitals in the country, including eight in intensive care units or high dependency units, showed official data. ■
