11 community cases of Covid; five cases in managed isolation; more than 60,000 vaccines administered yesterday

Number of new community cases: 11

Number of new cases identified at the border: Five

Location of new cases: Auckland

Location of community cases (total): Auckland 990 (535 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (15 of whom have recovered)

Number of community cases (total): 1,007 (in current community outbreak)

Cases infectious in the community *: Nine (60%) of yesterday's 15 cases have exposure events

Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious *: Six (40%) of yesterday's 15 cases

Cases epidemiologically linked: Nine of today's cases

Cases to be epidemiologically linked: Two of today's cases

Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 973 (in current cluster) (13 in past 14 days unlinked)

Number of sub-clusters: Nine epidemiologically linked subclusters. The three largest subclusters are the Māngere church group: 384; and Birkdale social network cluster: 79; secondary community transmission associated with the Māngere church group 164.

And ten epidemiologically unlinked subclusters.

Cases in hospital: 14 (total): North Shore (2); Middlemore (8); Auckland (4)

Cases in ICU or HDU: Three

Confirmed cases (total): 3,658 since pandemic began

Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total): 149 out of 1,840 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

Number of active contacts being managed (total): 1064/li>
Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 94%
Percentage with at least one test result: 88%

Locations of interest

Locations of interest (total): 135 (as at 10am 17 September)

Tests

Number of tests (total): 3,206,325
Number of tests total (last 24 hours): 15,419
Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours): 7400
Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 13,177
Testing centres in Auckland: 23

Wastewater

Wastewater detections: Auckland eastern suburbs (catchment includes Pakuranga, Shelley Park, Bucklands Beach)

COVID-19 vaccine update

Vaccines administered to date (total): 4,569,255; 1st doses: 3,015,345; 2nd doses: 1,553,910
Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 60,506; 1st doses: 36,666; 2nd doses: 23,840
Māori: 1st doses: 282,828; 2nd doses: 135,945
Pacific Peoples: 1st doses: 182,388; 2nd doses: 93,880

NZ COVID-19 tracer

Registered users (total): 3,224,773
Poster scans (total): 363,829,166
Manual diary entries (total): 16,437,191
Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 2,478,712

*Yesterday we reported 13 community cases, however in today's reporting of yesterday's cases who were infectious in the community, we are reporting 15 – this is due to two different data systems and a small lag in data reportage.

**Recovered cases can continue shedding viral matter for weeks after recovering.

With more than 700 recovered cases linked to this outbreak, we will see detections of COVID-19 in wider wastewater that are likely linked to recovered cases. Nonetheless, public health officials will continue to investigate positive detections and take urgent repeat samples where appropriate.

Historical cases identified at the border

Arrival date	From	Via	Positive test day/reason	Managed isolation/quarantine location
4 September	Russia	United Arab Emirates	Day 11 / routine	Auckland
4 September	Russia	United Arab Emirates	Day 11 / routine	Auckland
12 September	Philippines	Australia	Day 3 / routine	Auckland
15 September	Germany	United Arab Emirates	Day 0 / routine	Hamilton
17 September	UK	Singapore	Day 1 / routine	Christchurch

*These cases are in a travel bubble together

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