23 community cases of Covid; one case at border; more than 53,000 vaccines administered yesterday

Number of new community cases: 23

Number of new cases identified at the border: One

Location of new cases: Auckland

Location of community cases (total): Auckland (including 4 cases in Upper Hauraki) 1,091 (818 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (all of whom have recovered);

Number of community cases (total): 1,108 (in current community outbreak)

Cases infectious in the community: Seven (50%) of yesterday's cases have exposure events

Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious: Seven (50%) of yesterday's cases

Cases epidemiologically linked: 22 of today's cases

Cases to be epidemiologically linked: 1 of today's cases

Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 1,080 (in current cluster) (7 unlinked from past fortnight)

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

There are eleven epidemiologically unlinked subclusters. Of these, three are active, three are contained and five are dormant

Cases in hospital: 13 (total): Auckland (3); Middlemore (10).

Cases in ICU or HDU: Two

Confirmed cases (total): 3,763 since pandemic began

Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total): 152 out of 1,945 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

Number of active contacts being managed (total): 1,282
Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 93%
Percentage with at least one test result: 89%

Locations of interest

Locations of interest (total): 126 (as at 10am 21 September)

Tests

Number of tests (total): 3,267,861
Total number of laboratory tests processed (last 24 hours): 18,877
Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 13,510
Swabs taken in Auckland (last 24 hours): 9780
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): 4,817,214 1st doses: 3,146,149; 2nd doses: 1,671,065
Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 53,721; 1st doses: 27,534 2nd doses: 26,187
Māori: 1st doses: 298,008 2nd doses: 145,965
Pacific Peoples: 1st doses: 192,841 2nd doses: 102,109

NZ COVID-19 tracer

Registered users (total): 3,240,718
Poster scans (total): 375,582,697
Manual diary entries (total): 16,778,429
Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 2,319,996

Historical cases identified at the border

Arrival date	From	Via	Positive test day/reason	Managed isolation/quarantine location
20 September	Canada	USA	Day 0 / routine	Wellington

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