Friends

Friends from Napier are in Auckland for a few days and we arranged to meet them for lunch today.  It was so good to see them and have a lovely catch up over a meal.

It’s been cold, very windy and wet (intermittently) today. Definitely a winter’s day.  This morning there was a rainbow a patch of blue sky (see blip) but moments later the rain caused a complete whiteout.

There are 4,238 new community cases today, and the seven-day rolling average is 7,183 compared to 8,600 last Sunday. The number of people in hospital is 806, including 12 in ICU. The seven-day rolling average of deaths attributable to Covid-19 is now 19, and 1,502 deaths have been confirmed as either directly attributed to Covid, or with Covid as a contributing factor.