15 community cases of Covid; one new case in managed isolation; over 4 million vaccines administered to date

Number of new community cases: 15

Number of new cases identified at the border: One

Location of new cases: Auckland

Location of community cases (total): Auckland 838 (210 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (eight of whom have recovered)

Number of community cases (total): *855 (in current community outbreak)

Cases infectious in the community: Five (25%) of yesterday's cases have exposure events

Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infected: 15 (75%) of yesterday's cases

Cases epidemiologically linked: 13 of today's cases

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

Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 830 (in current cluster) (25 unlinked)

Number of sub-clusters: Eight epidemiologically linked subclusters. The two largest subclusters are the Mangere church group: 371; and Birkdale social network cluster: 76.

And nine epidemiologically unlinked subclusters.

Cases in hospital: 37 (total): North Shore (8); Middlemore (14); Auckland (15)

Cases in ICU or HDU: Six

Confirmed cases (total): 3,473 since pandemic began

Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total): 130 out of 1,655 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

Number of contacts identified (total): 38,018
Percentage who have received outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 87%
Percentage with at least one test result: 91%

Locations of interest

Locations of interest (total): 126 (as at 10am 5 September)

Tests

Number of tests (total): 3,082,577
Number of tests total (last 24 hours): 13,230
Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours): 8,566
Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 10,855
Testing centres in Auckland: 21

Wastewater

Wastewater detections: No unexpected detections in past 24 hours

COVID-19 vaccine update

Vaccines administered to date (total): 4,032,710; 1st doses: 2,662,131; 2nd doses: 1,370,579
Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 72,893; 1st doses: 49,594; 2nd doses: 23,299
Māori: 1st doses: 245,139; 2nd doses: 120,907
Pacific Peoples: 1st doses: 157,145; 2nd doses: 82,434

NZ COVID-19 tracer

Registered users (total): 3,169,906
Poster scans (total): 341,866,852
Manual diary entries (total): 15,654,896
Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 1,018,481

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.

*A previously reported community case has been reclassified as a border case. The total number of cases associated with this outbreak has increased by 14 since yesterday.

New cases identified at the border

Arrival date	From	Via	Positive test day/reason	Managed isolation/quarantine location
4 September	Philippines	Singapore	Day 1 / routine	Rotorua

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