There are 44 new community cases today. 20 of these are household contacts, 12 are known contacts, and 12 remain unlinked with investigations continuing to determine how they are linked to the current outbreak.
Director of Public Health Dr Caroline McElnay says, “We acknowledge today’s numbers are higher than recent days. This is not unexpected because there have been a number of contacts of new cases and we can expect to get fluctuations from day to day.”
Cases
- Number of new community cases*: 44
- Number of new cases identified at the border: three
- Location of new community cases: Auckland (41) Waikato (3)
- Location of community cases (total): Auckland 1,450 (1,068 of whom have recovered); Waikato 25; Wellington 17 (all of whom have recovered)
- Number of community cases (total): 1,492 (in current community outbreak)
- Cases infectious in the community: 17 of yesterday’s 29 cases have exposure events
- Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious: 12 of yesterday’s 29 cases
- Cases epidemiologically linked: 32 of today’s 44 cases
- Cases to be epidemiologically linked: 12 of today’s 44 cases.
- Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 1,444 (in the current cluster) (26 unlinked from the past 14 days)
- Number of sub-clusters: 16 epidemiologically linked subclusters. Of these, six are active, one is contained and nine are dormant. There are 14 epidemiologically unlinked subclusters. Of these, five are active, none are contained and nine are dormant.
- Cases in hospital: 25 (total): North Shore (2); Middlemore (12); Auckland (10); Waikato Base Hospital (1)
- Cases in ICU or HDU: Five
- Confirmed cases (total): 4,169 since pandemic began
- Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total) **: 166 out of 2,353 since 1 Jan 2021
Contacts
- Number of active contacts being managed (total): 1,749
- Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 77%
- Percentage with at least one test result: 74%
Locations of interest
- Locations of interest (total): 206 (as at 10am 8 October)
Tests
- Number of tests (total): 3,543,083
- Number of tests total (last 24 hours): 29,925
- Tests processed in Auckland (last 24 hours): 10,439
- Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 20,797
- Testing centres in Auckland: 22
Wastewater
- Wastewater detections ***: No unexpected detections in the last 24 hours
COVID-19 vaccine update
- Vaccines administered to date (total): 5,621,078; 1st doses: 3,400,749; 2nd doses: 2,220,329
- Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 82,303; 1st doses: 19,705; 2nd doses: 62,598
- Māori: 1st doses: 336,832; 2nd doses: 198,104
- Pacific Peoples: 1st doses: 214,878; 2nd doses: 136,202
- Vaccines administered to Auckland residents to date (total): 2,044,163: 1st doses: 1,226,962 (86%); 2nd doses: 817,201 (57%)
- Vaccines administered to Auckland residents yesterday (total): 26,277: 1st doses: 4,638; 2nd doses: 21,639
NZ COVID-19 tracer
- Registered users (total): 3,281,845
- Poster scans (total): 414,678,519
- Manual diary entries (total): 17,799,538
- Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 2,539,723
New cases identified at the border
Arrival date | From | Via | Positive test day/reason | Managed isolation/quarantine location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
24 September | China | Full travel history to be confirmed | Day 12 / routine | Auckland |
5 October | Russia | Singapore | Day 0 / routine | Christchurch |
| 7 October | Full travel history to be confirmed | Qatar | Day 0 / routine | Auckland |
Waikato update
The three new cases in Waikato are all linked and contacts of existing cases. Interviews are continuing to determine any further contacts or locations of interest.
There continues to be a strong response to calls for testing in Waikato with 5,180 swabs taken yesterday. There are seven pop up testing sites operating today at Claudelands, Te Rapa, Karapiro, Raglan, Huntly, Kawhia and Tokoroa, with extended hours to cater for demand. The existing testing centre at Founders Theatre is also open.
