COVID-19 reporting

Weekly updates of COVID-19 cases, hospital admissions, and deaths in Aotearoa New Zealand including counts and rates by demographic groups.

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COVID-19 report

As of 16 October 2025, COVID-19 reporting is now available through Power BI report. The report contains weekly updates, with counts and rates by demographic groups, of COVID-19:

  • cases
  • hospital admissions
  • deaths.

We are working to add the option to allow report's underlying data to be available for download.

Due to a technical issue in our database, 3 days of data is missing from the 30 day counts. This means that actual cases and hospitalisations will be slightly higher than reported here.

COVID-19 reporting dashboard

To guide your understanding of this dashboard, see the definitions used on page 6.

To view the COVID-19 reporting in a full screen, select the full screen mode icon (double diagonal arrow on the lower right side).

COVID-19 reporting changes

From 16 October 2025, we are making improvements to our COVID-19 reporting.

This reflects our transition from pandemic reporting to a newly developed reporting system. This is consistent with other updated reporting measures and standards.

As such, there are some changes in the methodology used to present our COVID-19 reporting. These include the following.

Death reporting changes

We have changed how COVID-19 attributed deaths are reported. Deaths which happened after 18 July 2025 will only be reported through the mortality data. Only deaths which happened before 18 July 2025 are reported on this dashboard.

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Any changes in the data reflects deaths which happened before 18 July 2025 and were later attributed to COVID-19, not recent deaths.

The reporting periods of 7 days and 30 days do not show not recent deaths. They are deaths which happened before 18 July 2025 and were recorded as COVID-19 attributed within the last 7-day or 30-day reporting period.

Admission rate reporting

We are also improving how we report COVID-19 hospitalisation data. Data will now be available for all districts. In the past it was only available for a limited number of districts.

Population denominator change

For COVID-19 rate calculations, the population denominator is now changing from using 2021 HSU (Health System User) data, to the Stats NZ estimated resident population. This is considered the gold standard and is used for other Health NZ reporting.

A monthly smoothing method is applied to population projections. Each year’s projected population is introduced gradually over a 12-month period.