Daily COVID-19 update - 20 community cases

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Daily COVID-19 update - 20 community cases

Media release from the Ministry of Health
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Wuhan coronavirus CDC

Cases

Number of new community cases

20

Number of new cases identified at the border

Three (and one historical)

Location of new cases

Auckland

Location of community cases (total)

Auckland 804 (114 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (three of whom have recovered)

Number of community cases (total)

821 (in current community outbreak)

Cases infectious in the community

Five (25%) of yesterday’s cases have exposure events

Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infected

15 (75%) of yesterday’s cases

Cases epidemiologically linked

15 of today’s cases

Cases to be epidemiologically linked

Five of today’s cases

Cases epidemiologically linked (total)

788 (in current cluster) (33 unlinked)

Number of sub-clusters

Eight epidemiologically linked subclusters. The two largest subclusters are the Mangere church group: 363; and Birkdale social network cluster: 76.
And six epidemiologically unlinked subclusters.

Cases in hospital

40 (total): North Shore (8); Middlemore (18); Auckland (14)

Cases in ICU or HDU

6

Confirmed cases (total)

3,436 since pandemic began

Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total)

129 out of 1,618 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

Number of contacts identified (total)

38,058*

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

86%

Percentage with at least one test result

91%

Locations of interest

Locations of interest (total)

122 (as at 10am 6 September)

Tests

Number of tests (total)

3,062,093

Number of tests total (last 24 hours)

4,750

Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours)

2,088

Tests rolling average (last 7 days)

13,488

Testing centres in Auckland

22

Wastewater

Wastewater detections

No unexpected detections in the past 24 hours.

COVID-19 vaccine update

Vaccines administered to date (total)

3,890,178; 1st doses: 2,564,936; 2nd doses: 1,325,242

Vaccines administered yesterday (total)

38,710; 1st doses: 26,738; 2nd doses: 11,972

Mâori

1st doses: 234,863; 2nd doses: 117,211

Pacific Peoples

1st doses:151,365; 2nd doses: 80,265

NZ COVID-19 tracer

Registered users (total)

3,151,533

Poster scans (total)

339,584,762

Manual diary entries (total)

15,459,174

Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday

852,546



*This denominator may fluctuate due to additional contacts being identified and/or the Ministry excluding records, for instance duplicates, following further contact tracing investigations.

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.

New cases identified at the border

Arrival date

From

Via

Positive test day/reason

Managed isolation/quarantine location

1 September

Serbia and Montenegro

United Arab Emirates

Day 3 / routine

Auckland

1 September

Serbia and Montenegro

United Arab Emirates

Day 3 / routine

Auckland

2 September

United Kingdom

Singapore

Day 1 / routine

Auckland

Historical case identified at the border

Arrival date

From

Via

Positive test day/reason

Managed isolation/quarantine location

28 August

Afghanistan

United Arab Emirates

Day 3 / routine

Auckland

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