8 community cases of COVID-19

Cases

Number of new community cases

8

Number of new cases identified at the border

4 cases (including 1 historical)

Location of new community cases

Auckland

Location of community cases (total)

Auckland (including 4 cases in Upper Hauraki; all of whom are in the same household) 1,168 (965 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (all of whom have recovered)

Number of community cases (total)

1,185 (in the current community outbreak)

Cases infectious in the community

Five (42%) of yesterday’s cases have exposure events

Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious

Six (50%) of yesterday’s cases

Cases epidemiologically linked

Seven of today’s 8 cases are contacts of existing cases.

Cases to be epidemiologically linked

One of today’s 8 cases Investigations are continuing to determine a link.

Cases epidemiologically linked (total)

1,156 (in the current cluster) (Seven unlinked from the past fortnight).

Number of sub-clusters

15 epidemiologically linked subclusters. Of these, four are active, nine are contained and two are dormant. There are ten epidemiologically unlinked subclusters. Of these, none are active, three are contained and seven are dormant.

Cases in hospital

14 (total): North Shore (2); Middlemore (6); Auckland (6)

Cases in ICU or HDU

Three

Confirmed cases (total)

3,848 since pandemic began

Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total)

159 out of 2,030 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

Number of open contacts being managed (total):

982

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

93%

Percentage with at least one test result

88%

Locations of interest

Locations of interest (total)

108 (as at 10am 28 September)

Tests

Number of tests (total)

3,346,490

Number of tests processed (total last 24 hours)

9,955

Tests processed in Auckland (last 24 hours)

7,562

Tests rolling average (last 7 days)

13,929

Testing centres in Auckland

22

Wastewater

Wastewater detections

A positive sample was detected in Tauranga on 23 September. Further testing is underway with results expected later this week.

COVID-19 vaccine update

Vaccines administered to date (total)

5,087,231; 1^st doses: 3,252,825; 2^nd doses: 1,834,406

Vaccines administered yesterday (total)

40,706; 1^st doses: 12,641; 2^nd doses: 28,065

Māori

1^st doses: 312,332; 2^nd doses: 160,664

Pacific Peoples

1^st doses: 202,228; 2^nd doses: 113,218

Vaccines administered to Auckland residents to date (total)

1,853,576; 1^st doses: 1,181,645 (82%); 2^nd doses: 671,931 (47%)

Vaccines administered to Auckland residents yesterday (total)

15,163; 1^st doses: 4,413; 2^nd doses: 10,750

NZ COVID-19 tracer

Registered users (total)

3,3,257,830

Poster scans (total)

390,291,961

Manual diary entries (total)

17,154,738

Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday

1,527,097

Arrival date

From

Via

Positive test day/reason

Managed isolation/quarantine location

14 September

UK

United Arab Emirates

Day 12/ Routine

Auckland

21 September

Russia

United Arab Emirates

Day 3 / contact of a case

Auckland

25 September

Singapore

Direct

Day 1 / routine

Auckland

Arrival date

From

Via

Positive test day/reason

Managed isolation/quarantine location

22 September

Cambodia

Singapore

Day 3 / routine

Christchurch