Media release
23 September 2021
Cases
- Number of new community cases: 15 (3 are currently unlinked, 2 are contacts of cases and 10 are household contacts).
- Number of new cases identified at the border: Two (one historical)
- Location of new cases: Auckland
- Location of community cases (total): Auckland (including 4 cases in Upper Hauraki) 1,106 (844 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (all of whom have recovered);
- Number of community cases (total): 1,123 (in current community outbreak)
- Cases infectious in the community: 10 (43%) of yesterday’s cases have exposure events
- Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious: 13 (57%) of yesterday’s cases
- Cases epidemiologically linked: 12 of today’s cases
- Cases to be epidemiologically linked: 3 of today’s cases
- Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 1,088 (in current cluster) (14 unlinked from past fortnight)
- Number of sub-clusters: Ten epidemiologically linked subclusters. Of these, two are active, six are contained and two are dormant.
- There are 13 epidemiologically unlinked subclusters. Of these, four are active, two are contained and seven are dormant
- Cases in hospital: 15 (total): North Shore (1): Auckland (4); Middlemore (10).
- Cases in ICU or HDU: Three
- Confirmed cases (total): 3779 since pandemic began
- Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total): 153 out of 1,961 since 1 Jan 2021
Contacts
- Number of active contacts being managed (total): 1,137
- Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 90%
- Percentage with at least one test result: 89%
Locations of interest
- Locations of interest (total): 132 (as at 10am 21 September)
Tests
- Number of tests (total): 3,287,055
- Total number of laboratory tests processed (last 24 hours): 19,194
- Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 13,740
- Swabs taken in Auckland (last 24 hours) : 8370
- 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): 4,867,818: 1st doses: 3,171,029; 2nd doses: 1,696,789
- Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 49,667: 1st doses: 24,339; 2nd doses: 25,338
- Māori: 1st doses: 301,435; 2nd doses: 148,527
- Pacific Peoples: 1st doses: 194,609; 2nd doses: 103,649
NZ COVID-19 tracer
- Registered users (total): 3,245,226
- Poster scans (total): 378,191,688
- Manual diary entries (total): 16,852,091
- Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 2,510,433
New cases identified at the border
|
Arrival date |
From |
Via |
Positive test day/reason |
Managed isolation/quarantine location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
21 September |
Russia |
United Arab Emirates |
Day 0 / Routine |
Auckland |
Historical cases identified at the border
|
Arrival date |
From |
Via |
Positive test day/reason |
Managed isolation/quarantine location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
6 September |
Thailand |
Singapore |
Day 12 / routine |
Auckland |