Daily COVID-19 update - 45 community cases

Cases

Number of new community cases

45

Number of new cases identified at the border

No cases

Location of new community cases

Auckland

Location of community cases (total)

Auckland (including 4 cases in Upper Hauraki; all of whom are in the same household) 1,213 (969 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (all of whom have recovered)

Number of community cases (total)

1,230 (in the current community outbreak)

Cases infectious in the community

Four (50%) of yesterday’s cases have exposure events

Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious

Four (50 %) of yesterday’s cases

Cases epidemiologically linked

33 of today’s 45 cases are linked. Of these 26 are household contacts.

Cases to be epidemiologically linked

Twelve of today’s 45 cases. Investigations are continuing to determine a link.

Cases epidemiologically linked (total)

1,193 (in the current cluster) (15 unlinked from the past fortnight).

Number of sub-clusters

15 epidemiologically linked subclusters. Of these, three are active, eight are contained and four are dormant. There are 10 epidemiologically unlinked subclusters. Of these, none are active, three are contained and seven are dormant.

Cases in hospital

16 (total): North Shore (2) Middlemore (7); Auckland (7)

Cases in ICU or HDU

Three

Confirmed cases (total)*

3,892 since pandemic began.

Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total)

159 out of 2,074 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

Number of open contacts being managed (total):

951

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

92%

Percentage with at least one test result

91%

Locations of interest

Locations of interest (total)

91 (as at 10am 28 September)

Tests

Number of tests (total)

3,361,927

Number of tests processed (total last 24 hours)

15,437

Tests processed in Auckland (last 24 hours)

8,537

Tests rolling average (last 7 days)

13,438

Testing centres in Auckland

21

Wastewater

Wastewater detections

There are no new unexpected wastewater detections. We are awaiting further results following the positive detection in Tauranga reported yesterday.

COVID-19 vaccine update

Vaccines administered to date (total)

5,132,627; 1^st doses: 3,266,796; 2^nd doses: 1,865,831

Vaccines administered yesterday (total)

44,649 1^st doses: 13,519; 2^nd doses: 31,130

Mâori

1^st doses: 314,427; 2^nd doses: 163,804

Pacific Peoples

1^st doses: 203,198; 2^nd doses: 114,733

Vaccines administered to Auckland residents to date (total)

1,868,161; 1^st doses: 1,185,737 (83%); 2^nd doses: 682,424 (48%)

Vaccines administered to Auckland residents yesterday (total)

14,376; 1^st doses: 3,884; 2^nd doses: 10,492

NZ COVID-19 tracer

Registered users (total)

3,259,983

Poster scans (total)

392,744,620

Manual diary entries (total)

17,213,554

Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday

2,358,889