Daily COVID-19 update - 20 community cases

Cases

Number of new community cases

20

Number of new cases identified at the border

Four

Location of new cases

Auckland

Location of community cases (total)

*Auckland 784 (79 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (three of whom have recovered)

Number of community cases (total)

801 (in current community outbreak)

Cases infectious in the community

Six (30%) of yesterday’s cases have exposure events

Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infected

14 (70%) of yesterday’s cases

Cases epidemiologically linked

17 of today’s cases

Cases to be epidemiologically linked

Three of today’s cases

Cases epidemiologically linked (total)

774 (in current cluster) (27 unlinked)

Number of sub-clusters

Eight epidemiologically linked subclusters. The two largest subclusters are the Mangere church group: 356; and Birkdale social network cluster: 75.
And six epidemiologically unlinked subclusters.

Cases in hospital

38 (total): North Shore (9); Middlemore (16); Auckland (13)

Cases in ICU or HDU

Six

Confirmed cases (total)

3,412 since pandemic began

Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total)

128 out of 1,594 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

Number of contacts identified (total)

38,120

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

86%

Percentage with at least one test result

90%

Locations of interest

Locations of interest (total)

136 (as at 10am 5 September)

*Tests

Number of tests (total)

3,057,343

Number of tests total (last 24 hours)

9,238

Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours)

2,592

Tests rolling average (last 7 days)

15,148

Testing centres in Auckland

22

Wastewater

Wastewater detections

No unexpected detections in past 24 hours.

COVID-19 vaccine update

Vaccines administered to date (total)

3,850,611; 1st doses: 2,537,434; 2nd doses: 1,313,176

Vaccines administered yesterday (total)

76,812; 1st doses: 54,408; 2nd doses: 22,404

Māori

1st doses: 232,577; 2nd doses: 116,490

Pacific Peoples

1st doses:149,536; 2nd doses: 79,510

NZ COVID-19 tracer

Registered users (total)

3,148,302

Poster scans (total)

338,720,468

Manual diary entries (total)

15,380,675

Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday

1,059,837

Arrival date

From

Via

Positive test day/reason

Managed isolation/quarantine location

23 August

USA

Direct

Day 12 / routine

Auckland

28 August

Afghanistan

Australia

Day 6 / routine

Auckland

15 August

Philippines

Australia

Day 2 / routine

Auckland

TBC

Full travel history to be confirmed

Day 1 / routine

Auckland