Daily COVID-19 update - 11 community cases

Cases

Number of new community cases

11

Number of new cases identified at the border

Five

Location of new cases

Auckland

Location of community cases (total)

Auckland 990 (535 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (15 of whom have recovered)

Number of community cases (total)

1,007 (in current community outbreak)

Cases infectious in the community *

Nine (60%) of yesterday’s 15 cases have exposure events

Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious *

Six (40%) of yesterday’s 15 cases

Cases epidemiologically linked

Nine of today’s cases

Cases to be epidemiologically linked

Two of today’s cases

Cases epidemiologically linked (total)

973 (in current cluster) (13 in past 14 days unlinked)

Number of sub-clusters

Nine epidemiologically linked subclusters. The three largest subclusters are the Māngere church group: 384; and Birkdale social network cluster: 79; secondary community transmission associated with the Māngere church group 164.
And ten epidemiologically unlinked subclusters.

Cases in hospital

14 (total): North Shore (2); Middlemore (8); Auckland (4)

Cases in ICU or HDU

Three

Confirmed cases (total)

3,658 since pandemic began

Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total)

149 out of 1,840 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

Number of active contacts being managed (total):

1064

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

94%

Percentage with at least one test result

88%

Locations of interest

Locations of interest (total)

135 (as at 10am 17 September)

Tests

Number of tests (total)

3,206,325

Number of tests total (last 24 hours)

15,419

Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours)

7400

Tests rolling average (last 7 days)

13,177

Testing centres in Auckland

23

Wastewater**

Wastewater detections

Auckland eastern suburbs (catchment includes Pakuranga, Shelley Park, Bucklands Beach)

COVID-19 vaccine update

Vaccines administered to date (total)

4,569,255; 1^st doses: 3,015,345; 2^nd doses: 1,553,910

Vaccines administered yesterday (total)

60,506; 1^st doses: 36,666; 2^nd doses: 23,840

Māori

1^st doses: 282,828; 2^nd doses: 135,945

Pacific Peoples

1^st doses: 182,388; 2^nd doses: 93,880

NZ COVID-19 tracer

Registered users (total)

3,224,773

Poster scans (total)

363,829,166

Manual diary entries (total)

16,437,191

Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday

2,478,712

Arrival date

From

Via

Positive test day/reason

Managed isolation/quarantine location

*4 September

Russia

UAE

Day 11 / routine

Auckland

*4 September

Russia

UAE

Day 11 / routine

Auckland

12 September

Philippines

Australia

Day 3 / routine

Auckland

15 September

Germany

UAE

Day 0 / routine

Hamilton

17 September

UK

Singapore

Day 1 / routine

Christchurch