13 community cases of Covid; three border cases and two historical cases in managed isolation

Number of new community cases: 13

Number of new cases identified at the border: Five (two of these cases are historical)

Location of new cases: Auckland

Location of community cases (total): Auckland 979 (445 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (15 of whom have recovered)

Number of community cases (total): 996 (in 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: 7 (58%) of yesterday's cases

Cases epidemiologically linked: 10 of today's cases

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

Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 966 (in current cluster) (10 unlinked from past fortnight)

Number of sub-clusters: Nine epidemiologically linked subclusters. The three largest subclusters are the Māngere church group: 381; and Birkdale social network cluster: 77; secondary community transmission associated with the Māngere church group 164.

There are ten epidemiologically unlinked subclusters.

Cases in hospital: 19 (total): North Shore (3); Auckland (6); Middlemore (10)

Cases in ICU or HDU: Four

Confirmed cases (total): 3,643 since pandemic began

Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total): 149 out of 1,825 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

Number of active contacts being managed (total): 963
Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 95%
Percentage with at least one test result: 90%

Locations of interest

Locations of interest (total): 129 (as at 10am 16 September)

Tests

Number of tests (total): 3,190,907
Number of tests total (last 24 hours): 17,578
Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 13,000
Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours): 9,100
Testing centres in Auckland: 22

Wastewater

Wastewater detections: A follow up sample has been collected from Snells Beach, following the reported detection yesterday, with results expected in the coming days

COVID-19 vaccine update

Vaccines administered to date (total): 4,507,944; 1st doses: 2,978,105; 2nd doses: 1,529,839
Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 62,782; 1st doses: 39,775; 2nd doses: 23,007
Māori: 1st doses: 278,614; 2nd doses: 133,830
Pacific Peoples: 1st doses:180,003; 2nd doses: 92,498

NZ COVID-19 tracer

Registered users (total): 3,222,022
Poster scans (total): 361,367,341
Manual diary entries (total): 16,366,712
Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 2,458,985

New cases identified at the border

Arrival date	From	Via	Positive test day/reason	Managed isolation/quarantine location
4 September	Iran	United Arab Emirates	Day 10 / contact of a case	Auckland
*13 September	United States of America	Singapore	Day 1 / routine	Hamilton
*13 September	United States of America	Singapore	Day 1 / routine	Hamilton

*These cases are in a travel bubble together

Historical cases identified at the border

Arrival date	From	Via	Positive test day/reason	Managed isolation/quarantine location
11 September	Jordan	United Arab Emirates	Day 0 / routine	Christchurch
11 September	Sri Lanka	United Arab Emirates	Day 0 / routine	Christchurch

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