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Daily COVID-19 update - 20 community cases
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. |
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 |
There may be some delays in providing data in some instances. On these occasions we will use data from the day before and clearly note this.
*A previously reported case has been reclassified as not a case.
A previously reported border case from July has been reclassified as historical. This case was a crew member on board the Playa Zahara who has now left the country.
New cases identified at the border
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 |