20 community cases of Covid; four new cases in managed isolation; one historical case; over 76,000 vaccines administered yesterday

Number of new community cases: 20

Number of new cases identified at the border: Four

Location of new cases: Auckland

Location of community cases (total): Auckland 784* (79 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (three of whom have recovered)

Number of community cases (total): 801 (in current community outbreak)

Cases infectious in the community: Six (30%) of yesterday's cases have exposure events

Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infected: 14 (70%) of yesterday's cases

Cases epidemiologically linked: 17 of today's cases

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

Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 774 (in current cluster) (27 unlinked)

Number of sub-clusters: Eight epidemiologically linked subclusters. The two largest subclusters are the Mangere church group: 356; and Birkdale social network cluster: 75. And six epidemiologically unlinked subclusters.

Cases in hospital: 38 (total): North Shore (9); Middlemore (16); Auckland (13)

Cases in ICU or HDU: Six

Confirmed cases (total): 3,412 since pandemic began

Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total): 128 out of 1,594 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

Number of contacts identified (total): 38,120
Percentage who have received outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 86%
Percentage with at least one test result: 90%

Locations of interest

Locations of interest (total): 136 (as at 10am 5 September)

Tests

Number of tests (total): 3,057,343
Number of tests total (last 24 hours): 9,238
Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours): 2,592
Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 15,148
Testing centres in Auckland: 22

Wastewater

Wastewater detections: No unexpected detections in past 24 hours.

COVID-19 vaccine update

Vaccines administered to date (total): 3,850,611; 1st doses: 2,537,434; 2nd doses: 1,313,176
Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 76,812; 1st doses: 54,408; 2nd doses: 22,404
Māori: 1st doses: 232,577; 2nd doses: 116,490
Pacific Peoples: 1st doses:149,536; 2nd doses: 79,510

NZ COVID-19 tracer

Registered users (total): 3,148,302
Poster scans (total): 338,720,468
Manual diary entries (total): 15,380,675
Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 1,059,837

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 case has been reclassified as not a case.

A previously reported border case from July has been reclassified as historical. This case was a crew member on board the Playa Zahara who has now left the country.

New cases identified at the border

Arrival date	From	Via	Positive test day/reason	Managed isolation/quarantine location
23 August	USA	Direct	Day 12 / routine	Auckland
28 August	Afghanistan	Australia	Day 6 / routine	Auckland
15 August	Philippines	Australia	Day 2 / routine	Auckland
TBC	Full travel history to be confirmed		Day 1 / routine	Auckland

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