Source: New Zealand Ministry of Health
Cases
- Number of new community cases *: 14
- Number of new cases identified at the border: One historical case
- Location of new cases: Auckland, Upper Hauraki
- Location of community cases (total): Auckland (including 4 cases in Upper Hauraki*) 1,068 (773 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (all of whom have recovered);
- Number of community cases (total): 1,085 (in current community outbreak)
- Cases infectious in the community: Nine (41%) of yesterday’s cases have exposure events
- Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious: 10 (45%) of yesterday’s cases
- Cases epidemiologically linked: 13 of today’s cases
- Cases to be epidemiologically linked: One of today’s cases
- Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 1,054 (in current cluster) (10 unlinked from past fortnight)
- Number of sub-clusters: Ten epidemiologically linked subclusters. Of these, two are active, seven are contained and one is dormant.
- There are eleven epidemiologically unlinked subclusters. Of these, three are active, three are contained and five are dormant
- Cases in hospital: 15 (total): North Shore (1); Auckland (4); Middlemore (10).
- Cases in ICU or HDU: Four
- Confirmed cases (total): 3,739 since pandemic began
- Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total): 152 out of 1,921 since 1 Jan 2021
Contacts
- Number of active contacts being managed (total): 1,375
- Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 87%
- Percentage with at least one test result: 84%
Locations of interest
- Locations of interest (total): 135 (as at 10am 21 September)
Tests
- Number of tests (total): 3,248,982
- Total number of laboratory tests processed (last 24 hours): 8,346
- Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 12,971
- Swabs taken in Auckland (last 24 hours): 8,588
- Testing centres in Auckland: 24
Wastewater
- Wastewater detections: No unexpected detections in ESR’s latest testing
COVID-19 vaccine update
- Vaccines administered to date (total): 4,762,679; 1st doses: 3,118,082; 2nd doses: 1,644,597
- Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 50,196; 1st doses: 24,522; 2nd doses: 25,674
- Māori: 1st doses: 294,099; 2nd doses: 143,416
- Pacific Peoples: 1st doses: 190,538, 2nd doses: 100,575
NZ COVID-19 tracer
- Registered users (total): 3,237,146
- Poster scans (total): 373,119,386
- Manual diary entries (total): 16,706,087
- Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 2,127,881
|
Arrival date |
From |
Via |
Positive test day/reason |
Managed isolation/quarantine location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
17 September |
United States of America |
Direct flight |
Day 0 / routine |
Christchurch |
*Today’s cases
Today’s number of community cases includes one positive result from Upper Hauraki. This was a household contact who was tested yesterday.
Two previously confirmed cases from Saturday and from yesterday have now been reclassified as under investigation. As a result, today’s net increase is 13 cases.
