Media release
16 September 2021
Cases
- Number of new community cases: 13
- Number of new cases identified at the border: Five (two of these cases are historical)
- Location of new cases: Auckland
- Location of community cases (total): Auckland 979 (445 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (15 of whom have recovered)
- Number of community cases (total): 996 (in current community outbreak)
- Cases infectious in the community: Five (42%) of yesterday’s cases have exposure events
- Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious: 7 (58%) of yesterday’s cases
- Cases epidemiologically linked: 10 of today’s cases
- Cases to be epidemiologically linked: Three of today’s cases
- Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 966 (in current cluster) (10 unlinked from past fortnight)
- Number of sub-clusters: Nine epidemiologically linked subclusters. The three largest subclusters are the Māngere church group: 381; and Birkdale social network cluster: 77; secondary community transmission associated with the Māngere church group 164.
- There are ten epidemiologically unlinked subclusters.
- Cases in hospital: 19 (total): North Shore (3); Auckland (6); Middlemore (10)
- Cases in ICU or HDU: Four
- Confirmed cases (total): 3,643 since pandemic began
- Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total): 149 out of 1,825 since 1 Jan 2021
Contacts
- Number of active contacts being managed (total): 963
- Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 95%
- Percentage with at least one test result: 90%
Locations of interest
- Locations of interest (total): 129 (as at 10am 16 September)
Tests
- Number of tests (total): 3,190,907
- Number of tests total (last 24 hours): 17,578
- Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 13,000
- Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours): 9,100
- Testing centres in Auckland: 22
Wastewater
- Wastewater detections: A follow up sample has been collected from Snells Beach, following the reported detection yesterday, with results expected in the coming days
COVID-19 vaccine update
- Vaccines administered to date (total): 4,507,944; 1st doses: 2,978,105; 2nd doses: 1,529,839
- Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 62,782; 1st doses: 39,775; 2nd doses: 23,007
- Māori: 1st doses: 278,614; 2nd doses: 133,830
- Pacific Peoples: 1st doses:180,003; 2nd doses: 92,498
NZ COVID-19 tracer
- Registered users (total): 3,222,022
- Poster scans (total): 361,367,341
- Manual diary entries (total): 16,366,712
- Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 2,458,985
|
Arrival date |
From |
Via |
Positive test day/reason |
Managed isolation/quarantine location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
4 September |
Iran |
United Arab Emirates |
Day 10 / contact of a case |
Auckland |
|
*13 September |
United States of America |
Singapore |
Day 1 / routine |
Hamilton |
|
*13 September |
United States of America |
Singapore |
Day 1 / routine |
Hamilton |
*These cases are in a travel bubble together
|
Arrival date |
From |
Via |
Positive test day/reason |
Managed isolation/quarantine location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
11 September |
Jordan |
United Arab Emirates |
Day 0 / routine |
Christchurch |
|
11 September |
Sri Lanka |
United Arab Emirates |
Day 0 / routine |
Christchurch |