33 community cases of Covid; three border cases in managed isolation; more than 4.3 million vaccines administered

Number of new community cases: 33

Number of new cases identified at the border: Three

Location of new cases: Auckland

Location of community cases (total): Auckland 938 (3601 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (12 of whom have recovered)

Number of community cases (total): 955 (in current community outbreak)

Cases infectious in the community: Seven (35%) of yesterday's 20 cases have exposure events

Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infected: 13 (65%) of yesterday's 20 cases

Cases epidemiologically linked: 32 of today's cases

Cases to be epidemiologically linked: One of today's cases *

Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 928 (in current cluster)

Number of sub-clusters: Eight epidemiologically linked subclusters. The two largest subclusters are the Mangere church group: 381; and Birkdale social network cluster: 76.

There are nine epidemiologically unlinked subclusters.

Cases in hospital: 21 (total): North Shore (4); Auckland (7); Middlemore (10)

Cases in ICU or HDU: Four

Confirmed cases (total): 3,593 since pandemic began

Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total): 137 out of 1,775 since 1 Jan 2021 **

Contacts

Number of contacts identified (total): 38,681
Percentage who have received outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 87%
Percentage with at least one test result: 92%

Locations of interest

Locations of interest (total): 126 (as at 10am 13 September)

Tests

Number of tests (total): 3,148,945
Number of tests total (last 24 hours): 8,657
Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 12,443
Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours): 4,250
Testing centres in Auckland: 22

Wastewater

Wastewater detections: No unexpected detections in past 24 hours

COVID-19 vaccine update

Vaccines administered to date (total): 4,325,490; 1st doses: 2,862,765; 2nd doses: 1,462,725
Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 33,866; 1st doses: 20,490; 2nd doses: 13,376
Māori: 1st doses: 265,875; 2nd doses: 128,017
Pacific Peoples: 1st doses: 172,628; 2nd doses: 88,493

NZ COVID-19 tracer

Registered users (total): 3,209,541
Poster scans (total): 354,094,377
Manual diary entries (total): 16,130,697
Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 2,200,284

New cases identified at the border

Arrival date	From	Via	Positive test day/reason	Managed isolation/quarantine location
4 September	Serbia and Montenegro	United Arab Emirates	Day 7 / routine	Auckland
7 September	India	United Arab Emirates	Day 0 / routine	Christchurch

Historical cases identified at the border

Arrival date	From	Via	Positive test day/reason	Managed isolation/quarantine location
7 September	Sweden	Denmark and United Arab Emirates	Day 0 / routine	Christchurch

* 32 of the 33 cases reported today are epidemiologically linked. The one case yet to be linked is a person who presented to Middlemore Hospital on Saturday. There are seven others in their household. All seven are included in today's 33.

** Four previously reported historical cases now have an 'active' health status – they have now been removed from our tally, which is why the number has reduced.

Testing reminder

Testing nationwide remains an essential part of our response to this outbreak, in particular providing confidence for understanding the extent of any spread of COVID-19.

We are continuing to remind people across Auckland to get tested, especially if you live in and around Massey, Favona, Henderson, Ōtara, Papatoetoe, Māngere and Manurewa.

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