20 community cases of Covid; three new cases in managed isolation; one historical case

Number of new community cases 20

Number of new cases identified at the border Three (and one historical)

Location of new cases Auckland

Location of community cases (total) Auckland 804 (114 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (three of whom have recovered)

Number of community cases (total) 821 (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 15 of today's cases

Cases to be epidemiologically linked Five of today's cases

Cases epidemiologically linked (total) 788 (in current cluster) (33 unlinked)

Number of sub-clusters Eight epidemiologically linked subclusters. The two largest subclusters are the Mangere church group: 363; and Birkdale social network cluster: 76.

And six epidemiologically unlinked subclusters.

Cases in hospital 40 (total): North Shore (8); Middlemore (18); Auckland (14)

Cases in ICU or HDU 6

Confirmed cases (total) 3,436 since pandemic began

Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total) 129 out of 1,618 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

Number of contacts identified (total) 38,058*
Percentage who have received outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements) 86%
Percentage with at least one test result 91%

Locations of interest

Locations of interest (total) 122 (as at 10am 6 September)

Tests

Number of tests (total) 3,062,093
Number of tests total (last 24 hours) 4,750
Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours) 2,088
Tests rolling average (last 7 days) 13,488
Testing centres in Auckland 22

Wastewater

Wastewater detections No unexpected detections in the past 24 hours.

COVID-19 vaccine update

Vaccines administered to date (total) 3,890,178; 1st doses: 2,564,936; 2nd doses: 1,325,242
Vaccines administered yesterday (total) 38,710; 1st doses: 26,738; 2nd doses: 11,972
Māori 1st doses: 234,863; 2nd doses: 117,211
Pacific Peoples 1st doses:151,365; 2nd doses: 80,265

NZ COVID-19 tracer

Registered users (total) 3,151,533
Poster scans (total) 339,584,762
Manual diary entries (total) 15,459,174
Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday 852,546

*This denominator may fluctuate due to additional contacts being identified and/or the Ministry excluding records, for instance duplicates, following further contact tracing investigations.

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.

New cases identified at the border

Arrival date	From	Via	Positive test day/reason	Managed isolation/quarantine location
1 September	Serbia and Montenegro	United Arab Emirates	Day 3 / routine	Auckland
1 September	Serbia and Montenegro	United Arab Emirates	Day 3 / routine	Auckland
2 September	United Kingdom	Singapore	Day 1 / routine	Auckland

Historical cases identified at the border

Arrival date	From	Via	Positive test day/reason	Managed isolation/quarantine location
28 August	Afghanistan	United Arab Emirates	Day 3 / routine	Auckland

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