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14 community cases of Covid; three historical cases in managed isolation; more than 62,000 vaccines administered yesterday

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  • Number of new community cases: 14
  • Number of new cases identified at the border: 3 historical cases
  • Location of new cases: Auckland
  • Location of community cases (total): Auckland 966 (441 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (15 of whom have recovered)
  • Number of community cases (total): 983 (in current community outbreak)
  • Cases infectious in the community: Three (19%) of yesterday’s 15 cases have exposure events
  • Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious: 13 (81%) of yesterday’s 15 cases
  • Cases epidemiologically linked: 14 of today’s cases
  • Cases to be epidemiologically linked: 0 of today’s cases
  • Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 947 (in current cluster) (8 in past 14 days unlinked)
  • Number of sub-clusters: Nine epidemiologically linked subclusters. The three largest subclusters are the Māngere church group: 381; and Birkdale social network cluster: 77; secondary community transmission associated with the Māngere church group 164.
  • And nine epidemiologically unlinked subclusters.
  • Cases in hospital: 20 (total): North Shore (3); Middlemore (11); Auckland (6)
  • Cases in ICU or HDU: Four
  • Confirmed cases (total): 3,981 since pandemic began
  • Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total): 147 out of 1,807 since 1 Jan 2021

    • Contacts*

    • Number of active contacts being managed (total): 970
    • Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 95%
    • Percentage with at least one test result: 90%
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