39 community cases of Covid; two border cases; more than 63,000 vaccines doses administered yesterday

Number of new community cases*: 39

Number of new cases identified at the border: Two

Location of new community cases: Auckland (30); Waikato (9)

Location of community cases (total): Auckland (including five cases in Upper Hauraki) 1,385 (1,068 recovered); Waikato 18 (all active); Wellington 17 (all recovered)

Number of community cases (total): 1,420 (in the current community outbreak)

Cases infectious in the community: 19 of yesterday’s 24 cases have exposure events

Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious: 5 of yesterday’s 24 cases

Cases epidemiologically linked: 38 of today’s 39 cases are linked

Cases to be epidemiologically linked: One of today’s 39 cases. Investigations are continuing to determine a link.

Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 1,383 (in the current cluster) (15 unlinked from the past fortnight).

Number of sub-clusters: 15 epidemiologically linked subclusters. Of these, seven are active, one is contained and seven are dormant. There are 14 epidemiologically unlinked subclusters. Of these, five are active, one is contained and eight are dormant.

Cases in hospital: 32 (total): North Shore (2) Middlemore (15); Auckland (14); Waikato (1)

Cases in ICU or HDU: Seven

Confirmed cases (total) 4,092 since pandemic began.

Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total) **: 166 out of 2,276 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

Number of open contacts being managed (total):: 1,410
Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 82%
Percentage with at least one test result: 79%

Locations of interest

Locations of interest (total): 160 (as at 10am 5 October)

Tests

Number of tests (total): 3,489,770
Number of tests processed (total last 24 hours): 24,714
Number of tests taken in Auckland (last 24 hours): 13,331
Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 18,263
Testing centres in Auckland: 22

Wastewater

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

COVID-19 vaccine update

Vaccines administered to date (total): 5,467,111; 1st doses: 3,361,425 2nd doses: 2,105,686
Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 63,624; 1st doses: 17,592; 2nd doses: 46,032
Mâori: 1st doses: 329,208 2nd doses: 186,632
Pacific Peoples: 1st doses: 212,208; 2nd doses: 131,120
Vaccines administered to Auckland residents to date (total): 1,993,927 1st doses: 1,216,661 (85%); 2nd doses: 777,266 (54%)
Vaccines administered to Auckland residents yesterday (total): 22,180; 1st doses: 5,562 2nd doses: 16,618

NZ COVID-19 tracer

Registered users (total): 3,276,018
Poster scans (total): 409,594,785
Manual diary entries (total): 17,665,545
Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 2,311,892

New cases identified at the border

Arrival date	From	Via	Positive test day/reason	Managed isolation/quarantine location
25 September	Philippines	Singapore	Day 6/ symptomatic	Auckland
1 October	Panama	France/UAE	Day 3 / routine	Auckland

Death at Middlemore

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