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24 community cases of COVID-19
24 community cases of COVID-19
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24 community cases of COVID-19; more than 50,000 vaccines administered yesterday
Cases |
|
Number of new community cases |
24 |
Number of new cases identified at the border |
No new cases at the border today |
Location of new cases |
Auckland |
Location of community cases (total) |
Auckland 1,033 (671 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (all of whom have recovered) |
*Number of community cases (total) |
1,050 (in current community outbreak) |
Cases infectious in the community |
Six (30%) of yesterday’s 20 cases have exposure events |
Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious |
14 (70%) of yesterday’s 20 cases |
Cases epidemiologically linked |
21 of today’s cases |
Cases to be epidemiologically linked |
3 of today’s cases |
Cases epidemiologically linked (total) |
1018 (in the current cluster) (12 in the past 14 days unlinked) |
Number of sub-clusters |
Nine epidemiologically linked subclusters. Of these, one is active, seven are contained and one is dormant. The three largest subclusters are the Māngere church group: 384; and Birkdale social network cluster: 80; secondary community transmission associated with the Māngere church group 167. |
Cases in hospital |
13 (total): North Shore (1); Middlemore (7); Auckland (5) |
Cases in ICU or HDU |
Four |
Confirmed cases (total) |
3,704 since pandemic began |
Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total) |
151 out of 1,886 since 1 Jan 2021 |
Contacts |
|
Number of active contacts being managed (total): |
1,215 |
Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements) |
85% |
Percentage with at least one test result |
87% |
Locations of interest |
|
Locations of interest (total) |
134 (as at 10am 19 September) |
Tests |
|
Number of tests (total) |
3,232,551 |
Number of tests total (last 24 hours) |
13,833 |
Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours) |
5,028 |
Tests rolling average (last 7 days) |
13,181 |
Testing centres in Auckland |
20 |
Wastewater |
|
Wastewater detections |
There was a positive detection in a sample from Pukekohe collected on 15 September. This follows a positive detection on 8 September and non-detection on 10 September. The result is believed to be linked to known cases in the area. |
COVID-19 vaccine update |
|
Vaccines administered to date (total) |
4,684,416; 1st doses: 3,078,338; 2nd doses: 1,606,078 |
Vaccines administered yesterday (total) |
53,386; 1st doses: 28,946; 2nd doses: 24,440 |
Māori |
1st doses: 289,716; 2nd doses: 140,473 |
Pacific Peoples |
1st doses: 187,302; 2nd doses: 97,994 |
NZ COVID-19 tracer |
|
Registered users (total) |
3,231,368 |
Poster scans (total) |
368,748,795 |
Manual diary entries (total) |
16,562,578 |
Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday |
2,599,942 |
*Two previously reported cases have been re-classified as not cases, resulting in a net increase of 22 cases