20 community cases of Covid; three new cases in managed isolation; one historical case 12 September

Number of new community cases: 20

Number of new cases identified at the border: Three (and one historical)

Location of new cases: Auckland

Location of community cases (total): Auckland 905 (342 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (10 of whom have recovered)

Number of community cases (total): 922 (in current community outbreak)

Cases infectious in the community: Ten (43%) of yesterday’s 23 cases have exposure events

Cases not infectious in the community: 13 (57%) of yesterday’s 23 cases

Cases epidemiologically linked: 12 of today’s cases

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

Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 888 (in current cluster) (34 unlinked)

Number of sub-clusters: Eight epidemiologically linked subclusters. The two largest subclusters are the Mangere church group: 379; and Birkdale social network cluster: 76. There are nine epidemiologically unlinked subclusters.

Cases in hospital: 18 (total): North Shore (4); Middlemore (8); Auckland (6)

Cases in ICU or HDU: Four

Confirmed cases (total): 3,557 since the pandemic began

Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total): 140 out of 1,739 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

Number of contacts identified (total): 38,538

Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 87%

Percentage with at least one test result: 92%

Locations of interest

• Locations of interest (total): 133 (as at 10am 12 September)

Tests

• Number of tests (total): 3,140,288
• Number of tests total (last 24 hours): 10,958
• Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours): 4,928
• Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 11,884
• Testing centres in Auckland: 19

Wastewater

• Wastewater detections: No unexpected detections in the past 24 hours

COVID-19 vaccine update

• Vaccines administered to date (total): 4,291,272; 1st doses: 2,841,961; 2nd doses: 1,449,311
• Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 61,810; 1st doses: 38,617; 2nd doses: 23,193
• Māori: 1st doses: 263,921; 2nd doses: 127,009
• Pacific Peoples: 1st doses: 171,158; 2nd doses: 87,335

NZ COVID-19 tracer

• Registered users (total): 3,206,211
• Poster scans (total): 352,002,725
• Manual diary entries (total): 16,047,758
• Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 2,600,276

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.

New cases identified at the border

Arrival date	From	Via	Positive test day/reason	Managed isolation/quarantine location
4 September	Full travel history to be confirmed	United Arab Emirates	Day 6 / routine	Auckland
4 September	Serbia and Montenegro	United Arab Emirates	Day 6 / routine	Auckland
4 September	India	United Arab Emirates	Day 6 / routine	Auckland

Historical case identified at the border

Arrival date	From	Via	Positive test day/reason	Managed isolation/quarantine location
7 September	Sweden	Denmark & United Arab Emirates	Day 1 / routine	Christchurch