14 community cases of Covid; one historical case at border; more than 50,000 vaccines administered yesterday

Number of new community cases *: 14

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

Location of new cases: Auckland, Upper Hauraki

Location of community cases (total): Auckland (including 4 cases in Upper Hauraki*) 1,068 (773 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (all of whom have recovered);

Number of community cases (total): 1,085 (in current community outbreak)

Cases infectious in the community: Nine (41%) of yesterday’s cases have exposure events

Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious: 10 (45%) of yesterday’s cases

Cases epidemiologically linked: 13 of today’s cases

Cases to be epidemiologically linked: One of today’s cases

Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 1,054 (in current cluster) (10 unlinked from past fortnight)

Number of sub-clusters: Ten epidemiologically linked subclusters. Of these, two are active, seven are contained and one is dormant.

There are eleven epidemiologically unlinked subclusters. Of these, three are active, three are contained and five are dormant

Cases in hospital: 15 (total): North Shore (1); Auckland (4); Middlemore (10).

Cases in ICU or HDU: Four

Confirmed cases (total): 3,739 since pandemic began

Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total): 152 out of 1,921 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

• Number of active contacts being managed (total): 1,375
• Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 87%
• Percentage with at least one test result: 84%

Locations of interest

• Locations of interest (total): 135 (as at 10am 21 September)

Tests

• Number of tests (total): 3,248,982
• Total number of laboratory tests processed (last 24 hours): 8,346
• Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 12,971
• Swabs taken in Auckland (last 24 hours): 8,588
• Testing centres in Auckland: 24

Wastewater

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

COVID-19 vaccine update

• Vaccines administered to date (total): 4,762,679; 1st doses: 3,118,082; 2nd doses: 1,644,597
• Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 50,196; 1st doses: 24,522; 2nd doses: 25,674
• Mâori: 1st doses: 294,099; 2nd doses: 143,416
• Pacific Peoples: 1st doses: 190,538, 2nd doses: 100,575

NZ COVID-19 tracer

• Registered users (total): 3,237,146
• Poster scans (total): 373,119,386
• Manual diary entries (total): 16,706,087
• Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 2,127,881

Historical cases identified at the border

Arrival date	From	Via	Positive test day/reason	Managed isolation/quarantine location
17 September	United States of America	Direct flight	Day 0 / routine	Christchurch

*Today’s cases

Today’s number of community cases includes one positive result from Upper Hauraki. This was a household contact who was tested yesterday.

Two previously confirmed cases from Saturday and from yesterday have now been reclassified as under investigation. As a result, today’s net increase is 13 cases.