15 community cases of COVID-19; two cases at the border; more than 49,000 vaccines yesterday

Cases

• Number of new community cases: 15 (3 are currently unlinked, 2 are contacts of cases and 10 are household contacts).
• Number of new cases identified at the border: Two (one historical)
• Location of new cases: Auckland
• Location of community cases (total): Auckland (including 4 cases in Upper Hauraki) 1,106 (844 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (all of whom have recovered);
• Number of community cases (total): 1,123 (in current community outbreak)
• Cases infectious in the community: 10 (43%) of yesterday’s cases have exposure events
• Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious: 13 (57%) of yesterday’s cases
• Cases epidemiologically linked: 12 of today’s cases
• Cases to be epidemiologically linked: 3 of today’s cases
• Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 1,088 (in current cluster) (14 unlinked from past fortnight)
• Number of sub-clusters: Ten epidemiologically linked subclusters. Of these, two are active, six are contained and two are dormant.
• There are 13 epidemiologically unlinked subclusters. Of these, four are active, two are contained and seven are dormant
• Cases in hospital: 15 (total): North Shore (1): Auckland (4); Middlemore (10).
• Cases in ICU or HDU: Three
• Confirmed cases (total): 3779 since pandemic began
• Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total): 153 out of 1,961 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

• Number of active contacts being managed (total): 1,137
• Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 90%
• Percentage with at least one test result: 89%

Locations of interest

• Locations of interest (total): 132 (as at 10am 21 September)

Tests

• Number of tests (total): 3,287,055
• Total number of laboratory tests processed (last 24 hours): 19,194
• Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 13,740
• Swabs taken in Auckland (last 24 hours) : 8370
• Testing centres in Auckland: 22

Wastewater

• Wastewater detections: No unexpected detections in ESR’s latest testing

COVID-19 vaccine update

• Vaccines administered to date (total): 4,867,818: 1st doses: 3,171,029; 2nd doses: 1,696,789
• Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 49,667: 1st doses: 24,339; 2nd doses: 25,338
• Māori: 1st doses: 301,435; 2nd doses: 148,527
• Pacific Peoples: 1st doses: 194,609; 2nd doses: 103,649

NZ COVID-19 tracer

• Registered users (total): 3,245,226
• Poster scans (total): 378,191,688
• Manual diary entries (total): 16,852,091
• Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 2,510,433

New cases identified at the border 

Historical cases identified at the border