11 community cases of COVID-19; five cases in managed isolation; more than 60,000 vaccines administered yesterday

Source: New Zealand Ministry of Health

Cases

• Number of new community cases: 11
• Number of new cases identified at the border: Five
• Location of new cases: Auckland
• Location of community cases (total): Auckland 990 (535 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (15 of whom have recovered)
• Number of community cases (total): 1,007 (in current community outbreak)
• Cases infectious in the community *: Nine (60%) of yesterday’s 15 cases have exposure events
• Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious *: Six (40%) of yesterday’s 15 cases
• Cases epidemiologically linked: Nine of today’s cases
• Cases to be epidemiologically linked: Two of today’s cases
• Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 973 (in current cluster) (13 in past 14 days unlinked)
• Number of sub-clusters: Nine epidemiologically linked subclusters. The three largest subclusters are the Māngere church group: 384; and Birkdale social network cluster: 79; secondary community transmission associated with the Māngere church group 164.
• And ten epidemiologically unlinked subclusters.
• Cases in hospital: 14 (total): North Shore (2); Middlemore (8); Auckland (4)
• Cases in ICU or HDU: Three
• Confirmed cases (total): 3,658 since pandemic began
• Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total): 149 out of 1,840 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

• Number of active contacts being managed (total): 1064/li>
• Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 94%
• Percentage with at least one test result: 88%

Locations of interest 

• Locations of interest (total): 135 (as at 10am 17 September)

Tests 

• Number of tests (total): 3,206,325
• Number of tests total (last 24 hours): 15,419
• Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours): 7400
• Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 13,177
• Testing centres in Auckland: 23

Wastewater 

• Wastewater detections: Auckland eastern suburbs (catchment includes Pakuranga, Shelley Park, Bucklands Beach)

COVID-19 vaccine update

• Vaccines administered to date (total): 4,569,255; 1st doses: 3,015,345; 2nd doses: 1,553,910
• Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 60,506; 1st doses: 36,666; 2nd doses: 23,840
• Māori: 1st doses: 282,828; 2nd doses: 135,945
• Pacific Peoples: 1st doses: 182,388; 2nd doses: 93,880

NZ COVID-19 tracer

• Registered users (total): 3,224,773
• Poster scans (total): 363,829,166
• Manual diary entries (total): 16,437,191
• Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 2,478,712

*Yesterday we reported 13 community cases, however in today’s reporting of yesterday’s cases who were infectious in the community, we are reporting 15 – this is due to two different data systems and a small lag in data reportage. 

**Recovered cases can continue shedding viral matter for weeks after recovering. 
With more than 700 recovered cases linked to this outbreak, we will see detections of COVID-19 in wider wastewater that are likely linked to recovered cases. Nonetheless, public health officials will continue to investigate positive detections and take urgent repeat samples where appropriate.

*These cases are in a travel bubble together

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