20 community cases of COVID-19; three new cases in managed isolation; one historical case; more than 61,000 vaccines administered yesterday

Source: New Zealand Ministry of Health

Cases

• Number of new community cases: 20
• Number of new cases identified at the border: Three (and one historical)
• Location of new cases: Auckland
• Location of community cases (total): Auckland 905 (342 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (10 of whom have recovered)
• Number of community cases (total): 922 (in current community outbreak)
• Cases infectious in the community: Ten (43%) of yesterday’s 23 cases have exposure events
• Cases not infectious in the community: 13 (57%) of yesterday’s 23 cases
• Cases epidemiologically linked: 12 of today’s cases
• Cases to be epidemiologically linked: Eight of today’s cases
• Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 888 (in current cluster) (34 unlinked)
• Number of sub-clusters: Eight epidemiologically linked subclusters. The two largest subclusters are the Mangere church group: 379; and Birkdale social network cluster: 76. There are nine epidemiologically unlinked subclusters.
• Cases in hospital: 18 (total): North Shore (4); Middlemore (8); Auckland (6)
• Cases in ICU or HDU: Four
• Confirmed cases (total): 3,557 since the pandemic began
• Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total): 140 out of 1,739 since 1 Jan 2021

• Contacts

• Number of contacts identified (total): 38,538
• Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 87%
• Percentage with at least one test result: 92%

Locations of interest

• Locations of interest (total): 133 (as at 10am 12 September)

Tests

• Number of tests (total): 3,140,288
• Number of tests total (last 24 hours): 10,958
• Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours): 4,928
• Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 11,884
• Testing centres in Auckland: 19

Wastewater

• Wastewater detections: No unexpected detections in the past 24 hours

COVID-19 vaccine update

• Vaccines administered to date (total): 4,291,272; 1st doses: 2,841,961; 2nd doses: 1,449,311
• Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 61,810; 1st doses: 38,617; 2nd doses: 23,193
• Māori: 1st doses: 263,921; 2nd doses: 127,009
• Pacific Peoples: 1st doses: 171,158; 2nd doses: 87,335

NZ COVID-19 tracer

• Registered users (total): 3,206,211
• Poster scans (total): 352,002,725
• Manual diary entries (total): 16,047,758
• Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 2,600,276

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.

MIL OSI