Media release
09 September 2021
Cases
- Number of new community cases: 13 *
- Number of new cases identified at the border: Five (two plus three historical)
- Location of new cases: Auckland
- Location of community cases (total): Auckland 851 (256 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (nine of whom have recovered)
- Number of community cases (total): 868 (in current community outbreak)
- Cases infectious in the community: Six (40%) of yesterday’s 15 cases have exposure events
- Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infected: Nine (60%) of yesterday’s 15 cases
- Cases epidemiologically linked: Seven of today’s cases
- Cases to be epidemiologically linked: Six of today’s cases
- Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 838 (in current cluster) (30 unlinked)
- Number of sub-clusters: Eight epidemiologically linked subclusters. The two largest subclusters are the Mangere church group: 374; and Birkdale social network cluster: 76.
- There are nine epidemiologically unlinked subclusters.
- Cases in hospital: 31 (total): North Shore (6); Auckland (13); Middlemore (12)
- Cases in ICU or HDU: Five
- Confirmed cases (total): 3,491 since pandemic began
- Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total): 134 out of 1,673 since 1 Jan 2021 **
Contacts
- Number of contacts identified (total): 38,126
- 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): 122 (as at 10am 5 September)
Tests
- Number of tests (total): 3,100,261
- Number of tests total (last 24 hours): 17,684
- Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 10,856
- Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours): 8,472
- Testing centres in Auckland: 22
Wastewater
- Wastewater detections: No unexpected detections in past 24 hours
COVID-19 vaccine update
- Vaccines administered to date (total): 4,100,658; 1st doses: 2,711,485; 2nd doses: 1,389,172
- Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 66,935; 1st doses: 48,491; 2nd doses: 18,444
- Mâori: 1st doses: 250,521; 2nd doses: 122,266
- Pacific Peoples: 1st doses: 159,836; 2nd doses: 83,252
NZ COVID-19 tracer
Registered users (total): 3,183,822
Poster scans (total): 344,396,830
Manual diary entries (total): 15,772,051
Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 1,624,160
|
Arrival date |
From |
Via |
Positive test day/reason |
Managed isolation/quarantine location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
4 September |
United Arab Emirates |
Direct |
Day 3 / routine |
Auckland |
| 6 September | Full travel history to be determined | Full travel history to be determined | Day 0 / routine | Auckland |
|
Arrival date |
From |
Via |
Positive test day/reason |
Managed isolation/quarantine location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
25 August |
South Africa |
Qatar and Australia | Day 3 / routine |
Auckland |
| 2 September | Sri Lanka | Qatar and Australia | Day 1 / routine | Auckland |
| 2 September | Qatar | Direct | Day 0 / routine | Auckland |