23 community cases of COVID-19; one case at the border; more than 53,000 vaccines administered yesterday

Cases

• 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