8 community cases of Covid; more than 40,000 doses of vaccine administered yesterday

Number of new community cases: 8

Number of new cases identified at the border: 4 cases (including 1 historical)

Location of new community cases: Auckland

Location of community cases (total): Auckland (including 4 cases in Upper Hauraki; all of whom are in the same household) 1,168 (965 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (all of whom have recovered)

Number of community cases (total): 1,185 (in the current community outbreak)

Cases infectious in the community: Five (42%) of yesterday’s cases have exposure events

Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious: Six (50%) of yesterday’s cases

Cases epidemiologically linked: Seven of today’s 8 cases are contacts of existing cases.

Cases to be epidemiologically linked: One of today’s 8 cases Investigations are continuing to determine a link.

Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 1,156 (in the current cluster) (Seven unlinked from the past fortnight).

Number of sub-clusters: 15 epidemiologically linked subclusters. Of these, four are active, nine are contained and two are dormant. There are ten epidemiologically unlinked subclusters. Of these, none are active, three are contained and seven are dormant.

Cases in hospital: 14 (total): North Shore (2); Middlemore (6); Auckland (6)

Cases in ICU or HDU: Three

Confirmed cases (total): 3,848 since pandemic began

Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total): 159 out of 2,030 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

• Number of open contacts being managed (total): 982
• Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 93%
• Percentage with at least one test result: 88%

Locations of interest

• Locations of interest (total): 108 (as at 10am 28 September)

Tests

• Number of tests (total): 3,346,490
• Number of tests processed (total last 24 hours): 9,955
• Tests processed in Auckland (last 24 hours): 7,562
• Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 13,929
• Testing centres in Auckland: 22

Wastewater

• Wastewater detections: A positive sample was detected in Tauranga on 23 September. Further testing is underway with results expected later this week.

COVID-19 vaccine update

• Vaccines administered to date (total): 5,087,231; 1st doses: 3,252,825; 2nd doses: 1,834,406
• Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 40,706; 1st doses: 12,641; 2nd doses: 28,065
• Māori: 1st doses: 312,332; 2nd doses: 160,664
• Pacific Peoples: 1st doses: 202,228; 2nd doses: 113,218
• Vaccines administered to Auckland residents to date (total): 1,853,576; 1st doses: 1,181,645 (82%); 2nd doses: 671,931 (47%)
• Vaccines administered to Auckland residents yesterday (total): 15,163; 1st doses: 4,413; 2nd doses: 10,750

NZ COVID-19 tracer

• Registered users (total): 3,3,257,830
• Poster scans (total): 390,291,961
• Manual diary entries (total): 17,154,738
• Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 1,527,097

New cases identified at the border

Arrival date	From	Via	Positive test day/reason	Managed isolation/quarantine location
14 September	UK	United Arab Emirates	Day 12/ Routine	Auckland
21 September	Russia	United Arab Emirates	Day 3 / contact of a case	Auckland
25 September	Singapore	Direct	Day 1 / routine	Auckland

Historical cases identified at the border

Arrival date	From	Via	Positive test day/reason	Managed isolation/quarantine location
22 September	Cambodia	Singapore	Day 3 / routine	Christchurch

Wastewater and testing

ESR has reported one positive detection in wastewater in Tauranga from a sample collected on 23 September.