15 community cases of COVID-19; one new case in managed isolation; over 4 million vaccines administered to date

Source: New Zealand Ministry of Health

Cases

• Number of new community cases: 15
• Number of new cases identified at the border: One
• Location of new cases: Auckland
• Location of community cases (total): Auckland 838 (210 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (eight of whom have recovered)
• Number of community cases (total): *855 (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: 13 of today’s cases
• Cases to be epidemiologically linked: Two of today’s cases
• Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 830 (in current cluster) (25 unlinked)
• Number of sub-clusters: Eight epidemiologically linked subclusters. The two largest subclusters are the Mangere church group: 371; and Birkdale social network cluster: 76.
• And nine epidemiologically unlinked subclusters.
• Cases in hospital: 37 (total): North Shore (8); Middlemore (14); Auckland (15)
• Cases in ICU or HDU: Six
• Confirmed cases (total): 3,473 since pandemic began
• Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total): 130 out of 1,655 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

• Number of contacts identified (total): 38,018
• Percentage who have received outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 87%
• Percentage with at least one test result: 91%

Locations of interest

Locations of interest (total): 126 (as at 10am 5 September)

Tests

• Number of tests (total): 3,082,577
• Number of tests total (last 24 hours): 13,230
• Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours): 8,566
• Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 10,855
• Testing centres in Auckland: 21

Wastewater

• Wastewater detections: No unexpected detections in past 24 hours

COVID-19 vaccine update

• Vaccines administered to date (total): 4,032,710; 1st doses: 2,662,131; 2nd doses: 1,370,579
• Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 72,893; 1st doses: 49,594; 2nd doses: 23,299
• Māori: 1st doses: 245,139; 2nd doses: 120,907
• Pacific Peoples: 1st doses: 157,145; 2nd doses: 82,434

NZ COVID-19 tracer

• Registered users (total): 3,169,906
• Poster scans (total): 341,866,852
• Manual diary entries (total): 15,654,896
• Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 1,018,481

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.

*A previously reported community case has been reclassified as a border case. The total number of cases associated with this outbreak has increased by 14 since yesterday.

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