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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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