Daily COVID-19 update - 19 community cases

Cases

Number of new community cases

19

Number of new cases identified at the border

Three new cases and three historical cases.

Location of new community cases *

Auckland (18); Waikato (1)

Location of community cases (total)

Auckland (including 4 cases in Upper Hauraki; all of whom are in the same household) 1,231 (975 of whom have recovered); Waikato 1; Wellington 17 (all of whom have recovered)

Number of community cases (total)

1,249 (in the current community outbreak)

Cases infectious in the community

20 (44%) of yesterday’s cases have exposure events

Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious

25 (56%) of yesterday’s cases

Cases epidemiologically linked

14 of today’s 19 cases are linked.

Cases to be epidemiologically linked

Five of today’s 19 cases. Investigations are continuing to determine a link.

Cases epidemiologically linked (total)

1,212 (in the current cluster) (15 unlinked from the past fortnight).

Number of sub-clusters

15 epidemiologically linked subclusters. Of these, three are active, eight are contained and four are dormant. There are 12 epidemiologically unlinked subclusters. Of these, two are active, three are contained and seven are dormant.

Cases in hospital

18 (total): North Shore (2) Middlemore (8); Auckland (8)

Cases in ICU or HDU

Four

Confirmed cases (total)

3,917 since pandemic began.

Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total) *

162 out of 2,099 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

Number of open contacts being managed (total):

911

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

88%

Percentage with at least one test result

79%

Locations of interest

Locations of interest (total)

93 (as at 10am 30 September)

Tests

Number of tests (total)

3,378,464

Number of tests processed (total last 24 hours)

16,537

Tests processed in Auckland (last 24 hours)

10,751

Tests rolling average (last 7 days)

13,058

Testing centres in Auckland

22

Wastewater

Wastewater detections *

There are no new unexpected wastewater detections. Latest results of samples taken from Mount Maunganui and Tauranga have come back undetected.

COVID-19 vaccine update

Vaccines administered to date (total)

5,174,210; 1^st doses: 3,281,176; 2^nd doses: 1,893,034

Vaccines administered yesterday (total)

40,874 1^st doses: 13,914; 2^nd doses: 26,960

Māori

1^st doses: 316,515; 2^nd doses: 166,337

Pacific Peoples

1^st doses: 204,267; 2^nd doses: 116,274

Vaccines administered to Auckland residents to date (total)

1,881,361; 1^st doses: 1,189,781 (83%); 2^nd doses: 691,580 (48%)

Vaccines administered to Auckland residents yesterday (total)

13,085; 1^st doses: 3,924; 2^nd doses: 9,161

NZ COVID-19 tracer

Registered users (total)

3,262,168

Poster scans (total)

395,306,266

Manual diary entries (total)

17,278,198

Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday

2,429,079

Arrival date

From

Via

Positive test day/reason

Managed isolation/quarantine location

20 September

United States of America

Direct

Day 8 / development of symptoms

Wellington

25 September

Russia

Full travel history to be determined

Day 3 / contact of a case

Auckland

29 September

Russia

United Arab Emirates

Day 0 / routine

Auckland

Arrival date

From

Via

Positive test day/reason

Managed isolation/quarantine location

16 September

India

United Arab Emirates

Day 0 / routine

Auckland

20 September

Fiji

Direct

Day 1 / routine

Auckland

26 September

Russia

Japan

Day 0 / routine

Hamilton