39 community cases of Covid; two border cases; more than 63,000 vaccines doses administered yesterday

  • Number of new community cases*: 39
  • Number of new cases identified at the border: Two
  • Location of new community cases: Auckland (30); Waikato (9)
  • Location of community cases (total): Auckland (including five cases in Upper Hauraki) 1,385 (1,068 recovered); Waikato 18 (all active); Wellington 17 (all recovered)
  • Number of community cases (total): 1,420 (in the current community outbreak)
  • Cases infectious in the community: 19 of yesterday’s 24 cases have exposure events
  • Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious: 5 of yesterday’s 24 cases
  • Cases epidemiologically linked: 38 of today’s 39 cases are linked
  • Cases to be epidemiologically linked: One of today’s 39 cases. Investigations are continuing to determine a link.
  • Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 1,383 (in the current cluster) (15 unlinked from the past fortnight).
  • Number of sub-clusters: 15 epidemiologically linked subclusters. Of these, seven are active, one is contained and seven are dormant. There are 14 epidemiologically unlinked subclusters. Of these, five are active, one is contained and eight are dormant.
  • Cases in hospital: 32 (total): North Shore (2) Middlemore (15); Auckland (14); Waikato (1)
  • Cases in ICU or HDU: Seven
  • Confirmed cases (total) 4,092 since pandemic began.
  • Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total) **: 166 out of 2,276 since 1 Jan 2021
  • Contacts

    • Number of open contacts being managed (total):: 1,410
    • Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 82%
    • Percentage with at least one test result: 79%

    Locations of interest

    • Locations of interest (total): 160 (as at 10am 5 October)

    Tests

    • Number of tests (total): 3,489,770
    • Number of tests processed (total last 24 hours): 24,714
    • Number of tests taken in Auckland (last 24 hours): 13,331
    • Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 18,263
    • Testing centres in Auckland: 22

    Wastewater

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

    COVID-19 vaccine update

    • Vaccines administered to date (total): 5,467,111; 1st doses: 3,361,425 2nd doses: 2,105,686
    • Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 63,624; 1st doses: 17,592; 2nd doses: 46,032
    • Mâori: 1st doses: 329,208 2nd doses: 186,632
    • Pacific Peoples: 1st doses: 212,208; 2nd doses: 131,120
    • Vaccines administered to Auckland residents to date (total): 1,993,927 1st doses: 1,216,661 (85%); 2nd doses: 777,266 (54%)
    • Vaccines administered to Auckland residents yesterday (total): 22,180; 1st doses: 5,562 2nd doses: 16,618

    NZ COVID-19 tracer

    • Registered users (total): 3,276,018
    • Poster scans (total): 409,594,785
    • Manual diary entries (total): 17,665,545
    • Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 2,311,892

    New cases identified at the border

    Arrival date

    From

    Via

    Positive test day/reason

    Managed isolation/quarantine location

    25 September

    Philippines

    Singapore

    Day 6/ symptomatic

    Auckland

    1 October

    Panama

    France/UAE

    Day 3 / routine

    Auckland

    Death at Middlemore

    /Public Release. View in full here.