15 community cases of Covid; one new case in managed isolation; over 4 million vaccines administered to date

  • Number of new community cases: 15
  • Number of new cases identified at the border: One
  • Location of new cases: Auckland
  • Location of community cases (total): Auckland 838 (210 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (eight of whom have recovered)
  • Number of community cases (total): *855 (in current community outbreak)
  • Cases infectious in the community: Five (25%) of yesterday’s cases have exposure events
  • Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infected: 15 (75%) of yesterday’s cases
  • Cases epidemiologically linked: 13 of today’s cases
  • Cases to be epidemiologically linked: Two of today’s cases
  • Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 830 (in current cluster) (25 unlinked)
  • Number of sub-clusters: Eight epidemiologically linked subclusters. The two largest subclusters are the Mangere church group: 371; and Birkdale social network cluster: 76.
  • And nine epidemiologically unlinked subclusters.
  • Cases in hospital: 37 (total): North Shore (8); Middlemore (14); Auckland (15)
  • Cases in ICU or HDU: Six
  • Confirmed cases (total): 3,473 since pandemic began
  • Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total): 130 out of 1,655 since 1 Jan 2021
  • Contacts

    • Number of contacts identified (total): 38,018
    • Percentage who have received outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 87%
    • Percentage with at least one test result: 91%

    Locations of interest

    Locations of interest (total): 126 (as at 10am 5 September)

    Tests

    • Number of tests (total): 3,082,577
    • Number of tests total (last 24 hours): 13,230
    • Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours): 8,566
    • Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 10,855
    • Testing centres in Auckland: 21

    Wastewater

    • Wastewater detections: No unexpected detections in past 24 hours

    COVID-19 vaccine update

    • Vaccines administered to date (total): 4,032,710; 1st doses: 2,662,131; 2nd doses: 1,370,579
    • Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 72,893; 1st doses: 49,594; 2nd doses: 23,299
    • Māori: 1st doses: 245,139; 2nd doses: 120,907
    • Pacific Peoples: 1st doses: 157,145; 2nd doses: 82,434

    NZ COVID-19 tracer

    • Registered users (total): 3,169,906
    • Poster scans (total): 341,866,852
    • Manual diary entries (total): 15,654,896
    • Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 1,018,481

    There may be some delays in providing data in some instances. On these occasions we will use data from the day before and clearly note this.

    *A previously reported community case has been reclassified as a border case. The total number of cases associated with this outbreak has increased by 14 since yesterday.

    New cases identified at the border

    Arrival date

    From

    Via

    Positive test day/reason

    Managed isolation/quarantine location

    4 September

    Philippines

    Singapore

    Day 1 / routine

    Rotorua

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