23 community cases of COVID-19

Cases

Number of new community cases

23

Number of new cases identified at the border

One

Location of new cases

Auckland

Location of community cases (total)

Auckland (including 4 cases in Upper Hauraki) 1,091 (818 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (all of whom have recovered);

Number of community cases (total)

1,108 (in current community outbreak)

Cases infectious in the community

Seven (50%) of yesterday’s cases have exposure events

Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious

Seven (50%) of yesterday’s cases

Cases epidemiologically linked

22 of today’s cases

Cases to be epidemiologically linked

1 of today’s cases

Cases epidemiologically linked (total)

1,080 (in current cluster) (7 unlinked from past fortnight)

Number of sub-clusters

Ten epidemiologically linked subclusters. Of these, two are active, seven are contained and one is dormant.
There are eleven epidemiologically unlinked subclusters. Of these, three are active, three are contained and five are dormant

Cases in hospital

13 (total): Auckland (3); Middlemore (10).

Cases in ICU or HDU

Two

Confirmed cases (total)

3,763 since pandemic began

Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total)

152 out of 1,945 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

Number of active contacts being managed (total)

1,282

Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements)

93%

Percentage with at least one test result

89%

Locations of interest

Locations of interest (total)

126 (as at 10am 21 September)

Tests

Number of tests (total)

3,267,861

Total number of laboratory tests processed (last 24 hours)

18,877

Tests rolling average (last 7 days)

13,510

Swabs taken in Auckland (last 24 hours)

9780

Testing centres in Auckland

22

Wastewater

Wastewater detections

No unexpected detections in ESR’s latest testing

COVID-19 vaccine update

Vaccines administered to date (total)

4,817,214 1st doses: 3,146,149; 2nd doses: 1,671,065

Vaccines administered yesterday (total)

53,721; 1st doses: 27,534 2nd doses: 26,187

Mâori

1st doses: 298,008 2nd doses: 145,965

Pacific Peoples

1st doses: 192,841 2nd doses: 102,109

NZ COVID-19 tracer

Registered users (total)

3,240,718

Poster scans (total)

375,582,697

Manual diary entries (total)

16,778,429

Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday

2,319,996

Arrival date

From

Via

Positive test day/reason

Managed isolation/quarantine location

20 September

Canada

USA

Day 0 / routine

Wellington