13 community cases of COVID-19

Cases

Number of new community cases

13

Number of new cases identified at the border

Five (two of these cases are historical)

Location of new cases

Auckland

Location of community cases (total)

Auckland 979 (445 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (15 of whom have recovered)

Number of community cases (total)

996 (in current community outbreak)

Cases infectious in the community

Five (42%) of yesterday’s cases have exposure events

Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious

7 (58%) of yesterday’s cases

Cases epidemiologically linked

10 of today’s cases

Cases to be epidemiologically linked

Three of today’s cases

Cases epidemiologically linked (total)

966 (in current cluster) (10 unlinked from past fortnight)

Number of sub-clusters

Nine epidemiologically linked subclusters. The three largest subclusters are the Māngere church group: 381; and Birkdale social network cluster: 77; secondary community transmission associated with the Māngere church group 164.

There are ten epidemiologically unlinked subclusters.

Cases in hospital

19 (total): North Shore (3); Auckland (6); Middlemore (10)

Cases in ICU or HDU

Four

Confirmed cases (total)

3,643 since pandemic began

Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total)

149 out of 1,825 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

Number of active contacts being managed (total)

963

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

95%

Percentage with at least one test result

90%

Locations of interest

Locations of interest (total)

129 (as at 10am 16 September)

Tests

Number of tests (total)

3,190,907

Number of tests total (last 24 hours)

17,578

Tests rolling average (last 7 days)

13,000

Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours)

9,100

Testing centres in Auckland

22

Wastewater

Wastewater detections

A follow up sample has been collected from Snells Beach, following the reported detection yesterday, with results expected in the coming days

COVID-19 vaccine update

Vaccines administered to date (total)

4,507,944; 1^st doses: 2,978,105; 2^nd doses: 1,529,839

Vaccines administered yesterday (total)

62,782; 1^st doses: 39,775; 2^nd doses: 23,007

Māori

1^st doses: 278,614; 2^nd doses: 133,830

Pacific Peoples

1^st doses:180,003; 2^nd doses: 92,498

NZ COVID-19 tracer

Registered users (total)

3,222,022

Poster scans (total)

361,367,341

Manual diary entries (total)

16,366,712

Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday

2,458,985

Arrival date

From

Via

Positive test day/reason

Managed isolation/quarantine location

4 September

Iran

United Arab Emirates

Day 10 / contact of a case

Auckland

*13 September

United States of America

Singapore

Day 1 / routine

Hamilton

*13 September

United States of America

Singapore

Day 1 / routine

Hamilton

Arrival date

From

Via

Positive test day/reason

Managed isolation/quarantine location

11 September

Jordan

United Arab Emirates

Day 0 / routine

Christchurch

11 September

Sri Lanka

United Arab Emirates

Day 0 / routine