9 community cases of Covid; one historical case in managed isolation; more than 49,000 vaccines administered yesterday

Number of new community cases: Nine

Number of new cases identified at the border: One historical case

Location of new community cases: Auckland

Location of community cases (total): Auckland (including 4 cases in Upper Hauraki) 1,114 (886 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (all of whom have recovered)

*Number of community cases (total): 1,131 (in current community outbreak)

Cases infectious in the community: Seven (50%) of yesterday’s *14 cases have exposure events

Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious: Seven (50%) of yesterday’s *14 cases

Cases epidemiologically linked: All of today’s nine cases are linked. Three are household contacts and six are contacts of known cases.

Cases to be epidemiologically linked: N/A

Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 1096 (in the current cluster) (14 in the past 14 days not yet epi-linked and not connected to a cluster)

Number of sub-clusters: 10 epidemiologically linked subclusters. Of these, two are active, six are contained and two are dormant. The three largest subclusters are the Māngere church group: 386; and Birkdale social network cluster: 80; secondary community transmission associated with the Māngere church group 168.

There are fourteen epidemiologically unlinked subclusters. Of these, three are active, four are contained, seven are dormant.

Cases in hospital: 13 (total): North Shore (1); Middlemore (6); Auckland (6)

Cases in ICU or HDU: Three

Confirmed cases (total): 3,788 since pandemic began

Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total): 154 out of 1,970 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

Number of active contacts being managed (total): 1,053
Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 93%
Percentage with at least one test result: 90%

Locations of interest

Locations of interest (total): 140 (as at 10am 24 September)

Tests

Number of tests (total): 3,301,910
Number of tests total (last 24 hours): 14,855
Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours): 6,928
Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 13,660
Testing centres in Auckland: 21

Wastewater

Wastewater detections: No unexpected detections in the last 24 hours

COVID-19 vaccine update

Vaccines administered to date (total): 4,917,531; 1st doses: 3,192,380; 2nd doses: 1,725,151
Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 49,115; 1st doses: 20,983; 2nd doses: 28,132
Māori: 1st doses: 304,397; 2nd doses: 151,308
Pacific Peoples: 1st doses: 196,170; 2nd doses: 105,217
Vaccines administered to Auckland residents to date (total): 1,786,161; 1st doses: 1,160,058 (81%); 2nd doses: 626,103 (44%)

NZ COVID-19 tracer

Registered users (total): 3,248,447
Poster scans (total): 380,822,134
Manual diary entries (total): 16,920,270
Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 2,573,666

*One of the 15 cases reported yesterday has been reclassified as under investigation, therefore the total number of community cases associated with this outbreak has increased by eight.

Historical case identified at the border

Arrival date	From	Via	Positive test day/reason	Managed isolation/quarantine location
17 September	Serbia and Montenegro	United Arab Emirates	Day 1 / routine	Auckland

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