Daily COVID-19 update - 24 community cases

Cases

Number of new community cases*

24 (including one historical)

Number of new cases identified at the border

Two (including one historical)

Location of new community cases

Auckland (18); Waikato (6)

Location of community cases (total)

Auckland (including four cases in Upper Hauraki; all of whom are in the same household) 1,355 (1,068 recovered); Waikato 8 (1 recovered); Upper Hauraki 1; Wellington 17 (all recovered)

Number of community cases (total)

1,381 (in the current community outbreak)

Cases infectious in the community

17 (59%) of yesterday’s 29 cases have exposure events

Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious

12 (41%) of yesterday’s 29 cases

Cases epidemiologically linked

17 of today’s 24 cases are linked.

Cases to be epidemiologically linked

7 of today’s 24 cases. Investigations are continuing to determine a link.

Cases epidemiologically linked (total)

1,341 (in the current cluster) (18 unlinked from the past fortnight).

Number of sub-clusters

15 epidemiologically linked subclusters. Of these, seven are active, one is contained and seven are dormant. There are 14 epidemiologically unlinked subclusters. Of these, five are active, one is contained and eight are dormant.

Cases in hospital

32 (total): North Shore (4) Middlemore (14); Auckland (13); Waikato (1)

Cases in ICU or HDU

Seven

Confirmed cases (total)

4,050 since pandemic began.

Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total) *

165 out of 2,234 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

Number of open contacts being managed (total):

1,262

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

83%

Percentage with at least one test result

74%

Locations of interest

Locations of interest (total)

149 (as at 10am 5 October)

Tests

Number of tests (total)

3,465,057

Number of tests processed (total last 24 hours)

14,905

Number of tests taken in Auckland (last 24 hours)

12,595

Tests rolling average (last 7 days)

16,938

Testing centres in Auckland

22

Wastewater

Wastewater detections **

No unexpected detections in the next 24 hours

COVID-19 vaccine update

Vaccines administered to date (total)

5,402,732; 1^st doses: 3,343,447 2^nd doses: 2,059,285

Vaccines administered yesterday (total)

55,673; 1^st doses: 14,846; 2^nd doses: 40,827

Mâori

507,653 1^st doses: 326,097 2^nd doses: 181,556

Pacific Peoples

339,343; 1^st doses: 210,788; 2^nd doses: 128,555

Vaccines administered to Auckland residents to date (total)

1,971,837 1^st doses: 1,211,175 (85%); 2^nd doses: 760,662 (53%)

Vaccines administered to Auckland residents yesterday (total)

20,796; 1^st doses: 4,916 2^nd doses: 15,880

NZ COVID-19 tracer

Registered users (total)

3,273,120

Poster scans (total)

407,160,894

Manual diary entries (total)

17,595,104

Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday

2,164,266

Arrival date

From

Via

Positive test day/reason

Managed isolation/quarantine location

25 September

Philippines

Singapore

Day 8 / symptomatic

Auckland

Arrival date

From

Via

Positive test day/reason

Managed isolation/quarantine location

25 September

Russia

United Arab Emirates

Day 3 / routine

Auckland