Daily COVID-19 update - 19 community cases

Cases

Number of new community cases *

19

Number of new cases identified at the border

No cases

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) 1,250 (1007 of whom have recovered); Waikato 1; Wellington 17 (all of whom have recovered)

Number of community cases (total)

1,268 (in the current community outbreak)

Cases infectious in the community

10 (52%) of yesterday’s cases have exposure events

Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious

9 (48%) of yesterday’s cases

Cases epidemiologically linked

18 of today’s 19 cases are linked.

Cases to be epidemiologically linked

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

Cases epidemiologically linked (total)

1,238 in the current cluster (9 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 13 epidemiologically unlinked subclusters. Of these, two are active, four are contained and seven are dormant.

Cases in hospital

23 (total): North Shore (3) Middlemore (12); Auckland (8) (two of these patients are recovered cases).

Cases in ICU or HDU

Four

Confirmed cases (total)

3,935 since pandemic began.

Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total) **

163 out of 2,117 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

Number of open contacts being managed (total):

915

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

85%

Percentage with at least one test result

75%

Locations of interest

Locations of interest (total)

103 (as at 10am 1 October)

Tests

Number of tests (total)

3,397,503

Number of tests processed (total last 24 hours)

19,038

Tests processed in Auckland (last 24 hours)

11,296

Tests rolling average (last 7 days)

13,656

Testing centres in Auckland

22

Wastewater

Wastewater detections * **

There are no new unexpected wastewater detections.

COVID-19 vaccine update

Vaccines administered to date (total)

5,221,014; 1^st doses: 3,295,644; 2^nd doses: 1,925,370

Vaccines administered yesterday (total)

46,272 1^st doses: 14,105 2^nd doses: 32,167

Māori

1^st doses: 318,845 2^nd doses: 169,409

Pacific Peoples

1^st doses: 205,381; 2^nd doses: 117,997

Vaccines administered to Auckland residents to date (total)

1,896,225; 1^st doses: 1,193,948 (83%); 2^nd doses: 702,277 (49%)

Vaccines administered to Auckland residents yesterday (total)

14,797; 1^st doses: 4,089; 2^nd doses: 10,708

NZ COVID-19 tracer

Registered users (total)

3,264,293

Poster scans (total)

397,868,433

Manual diary entries (total)

17,337,721

Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday

2,547,284