Daily COVID-19 update - 13 community cases

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Daily COVID-19 update - 13 community cases

Media release from the Ministry of Health

Thursday 9 September 2021, 04:45 PM

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Thirteen community cases of COVID-19; two new border cases and three historical cases in managed isolation; more than 4.1 million vaccines administered

Cases
Number of new community cases	13 *
Number of new cases identified at the border	Five (two plus three historical)
Location of new cases	Auckland
Location of community cases (total)	Auckland 851 (256 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (nine of whom have recovered)
Number of community cases (total)	868 (in current community outbreak)
Cases infectious in the community	Six (40%) of yesterday’s 15 cases have exposure events
Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infected	Nine (60%) of yesterday’s 15 cases
Cases epidemiologically linked	Seven of today’s cases
Cases to be epidemiologically linked	Six of today’s cases
Cases epidemiologically linked (total)	838 (in current cluster) (30 unlinked)
Number of sub-clusters	Eight epidemiologically linked subclusters. The two largest subclusters are the Mangere church group: 374; and Birkdale social network cluster: 76. There are nine epidemiologically unlinked subclusters.
Cases in hospital	31 (total): North Shore (6); Auckland (13); Middlemore (12)
Cases in ICU or HDU	Five
Confirmed cases (total)	3,491 since pandemic began
Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total)	134 out of 1,673 since 1 Jan 2021 **
Contacts
Number of contacts identified (total)	38,126
Percentage who have received outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements)	87%
Percentage with at least one test result	92%
Locations of interest
Locations of interest (total)	122 (as at 10am 5 September)
Tests
Number of tests (total)	3,100,261
Number of tests total (last 24 hours)	17,684
Tests rolling average (last 7 days)	10,856
Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours)	8,472
Testing centres in Auckland	22
Wastewater
Wastewater detections	No unexpected detections in past 24 hours
COVID-19 vaccine update
Vaccines administered to date (total)	4,100,658; 1st doses: 2,711,485; 2nd doses: 1,389,172
Vaccines administered yesterday (total)	66,935; 1st doses: 48,491; 2nd doses: 18,444
Mâori	1st doses: 250,521; 2nd doses: 122,266
Pacific Peoples	1st doses: 159,836; 2nd doses: 83,252
NZ COVID-19 tracer
Registered users (total)	3,183,822
Poster scans (total)	344,396,830
Manual diary entries (total)	15,772,051
Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday	1,624,160

New cases identified at the border

Arrival date	From	Via	Positive test day/reason	Managed isolation/quarantine location
4 September	United Arab Emirates	Direct	Day 3 / routine	Auckland
6 September	Full travel history to be determined	Full travel history to be determined	Day 0 / routine	Auckland

Historical cases identified at the border

Arrival date	From	Via	Positive test day/reason	Managed isolation/quarantine location
25 August	South Africa	Qatar and Australia	Day 3 / routine	Auckland
2 September	Sri Lanka	Qatar and Australia	Day 1 / routine	Auckland
2 September	Qatar	Direct	Day 0 / routine	Auckland

*Today’s community case total includes a case we reported on Tuesday as one that was yet to be classified. It has now been classified as a community case.

**There’s a total of four historical cases to report today – the fourth is a previously reported community case which has been reclassified.

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