15 community cases of Covid; two cases at border; more than 49,000 vaccines yesterday

Number of new community cases: 15 (3 are currently unlinked, 2 are contacts of cases and 10 are household contacts).

Number of new cases identified at the border: Two (one historical)

Location of new cases: Auckland

Location of community cases (total): Auckland (including 4 cases in Upper Hauraki) 1,106 (844 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (all of whom have recovered);

Number of community cases (total): 1,123 (in current community outbreak)

Cases infectious in the community: 10 (43%) of yesterday’s cases have exposure events

Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious: 13 (57%) of yesterday’s cases

Cases epidemiologically linked: 12 of today’s cases

Cases to be epidemiologically linked: 3 of today’s cases

Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 1,088 (in current cluster) (14 unlinked from past fortnight)

Number of sub-clusters: Ten epidemiologically linked subclusters. Of these, two are active, six are contained and two are dormant.

There are 13 epidemiologically unlinked subclusters. Of these, four are active, two are contained and seven are dormant

Cases in hospital: 15 (total): North Shore (1): Auckland (4); Middlemore (10).

Cases in ICU or HDU: Three

Confirmed cases (total): 3779 since pandemic began

Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total): 153 out of 1,961 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

Number of active contacts being managed (total): 1,137
Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 90%
Percentage with at least one test result: 89%

Locations of interest

Locations of interest (total): 132 (as at 10am 21 September)

Tests

Number of tests (total): 3,287,055
Total number of laboratory tests processed (last 24 hours): 19,194
Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 13,740
Swabs taken in Auckland (last 24 hours) : 8370
Testing centres in Auckland: 22

Wastewater

Wastewater detections: No unexpected detections in ESR’s latest testing

COVID-19 vaccine update

Vaccines administered to date (total): 4,867,818: 1st doses: 3,171,029; 2nd doses: 1,696,789
Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 49,667: 1st doses: 24,339; 2nd doses: 25,338
Māori: 1st doses: 301,435; 2nd doses: 148,527
Pacific Peoples: 1st doses: 194,609; 2nd doses: 103,649

NZ COVID-19 tracer

Registered users (total): 3,245,226
Poster scans (total): 378,191,688
Manual diary entries (total): 16,852,091
Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 2,510,433

New cases identified at the border

Arrival date	From	Via	Positive test day/reason	Managed isolation/quarantine location
21 September	Russia	United Arab Emirates	Day 0 / Routine	Auckland

Historical cases identified at the border

Arrival date	From	Via	Positive test day/reason	Managed isolation/quarantine location
6 September	Thailand	Singapore	Day 12 / routine	Auckland

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