19 community cases of Covid; three border related cases; three historical cases in managed isolation

Number of new community cases: 19

Number of new cases identified at the border: Three new cases and three historical cases.

Location of new community cases *: Auckland (18); Waikato (1)

Location of community cases (total): Auckland (including 4 cases in Upper Hauraki; all of whom are in the same household) 1,231 (975 of whom have recovered); Waikato 1; Wellington 17 (all of whom have recovered)

Number of community cases (total): 1,249 (in the current community outbreak)

Cases infectious in the community: 20 (44%) of yesterday's cases have exposure events

Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious: 25 (56%) of yesterday's cases

Cases epidemiologically linked: 14 of today's 19 cases are linked.

Cases to be epidemiologically linked: Five of today's 19 cases. Investigations are continuing to determine a link.

Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 1,212 (in the current cluster) (37 unlinked from the past fortnight).

Number of sub-clusters: 15 epidemiologically linked subclusters. Of these, one is active, ten are contained and four are dormant. There are 12 epidemiologically unlinked subclusters. Of these, none are active, five are contained and seven are dormant.

Cases in hospital: 18 (total): North Shore (2) Middlemore (8); Auckland (8)

Cases in ICU or HDU: Four

Confirmed cases (total): 3,917 since pandemic began.

Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total) *: 162 out of 2,099 since 1 Jan 2021

Contacts

Number of open contacts being managed (total):: 911
Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 88%
Percentage with at least one test result: 79%

Locations of interest

Locations of interest (total): 93 (as at 10am 30 September)

Tests

Number of tests (total): 3,378,464
Number of tests processed (total last 24 hours): 16,537
Tests processed in Auckland (last 24 hours): 8,537
Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 13,058
Testing centres in Auckland: 21

Wastewater

Wastewater detections *: There are no new unexpected wastewater detections. Latest results of samples taken from Mount Maunganui and Tauranga have come back undetected.

COVID-19 vaccine update

Vaccines administered to date (total): 5,174,210; 1st doses: 3,281,176; 2nd doses: 1,893,034
Vaccines administered yesterday (total): 40,874 1st doses: 13,914; 2nd doses: 26,960
Māori: 1st doses: 316,515; 2nd doses: 166,337
Pacific Peoples: 1st doses: 204,267; 2nd doses: 116,274
Vaccines administered to Auckland residents to date (total): 1,881,361; 1st doses: 1,189,781 (83%); 2nd doses: 691,580 (48%)
Vaccines administered to Auckland residents yesterday (total): 13,085; 1st doses: 3,924; 2nd doses: 9,161

NZ COVID-19 tracer

Registered users (total): 3,262,168
Poster scans (total): 395,306,266
Manual diary entries (total): 17,278,198
Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 2,429,079

New cases identified at the border

Arrival date	From	Via	Positive test day/reason	Managed isolation/quarantine location
20 September	United States of America	Direct	Day 8 / development of symptoms	Wellington
25 September	Russia	Full travel history to be determined	Day 3 / contact of a case	Auckland
29 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
16 September	India	United Arab Emirates	Day 0 / routine	Auckland
20 September	Fiji	Direct	Day 1 / routine	Auckland
26 September	Russia	Japan	Day 0 / routine	Hamilton

*Wastewater detections

Latest results of samples taken from Mount Maunganui and Tauranga have come back undetected. Further test results are expected in the coming days

*Today's cases

One positive case is being reported in a student from Mangatangi School in Upper Hauraki who has been isolating at home for the past 10 days.

The positive result was returned as a result of a day 12 test.

The student at Mangatangi school in Upper Hauraki is one of 96 day-12 tests of school students or teachers. We have 95 negative results returned and one test is still being arranged.

The Ministry's assessment is that as the latest case has been in isolation at home the risk of spread is currently regarded as low. The student is being transferred to a quarantine facility today.

In this instance the case is formally recorded as being in the Waikato DHB area, however it is right on the boundary with Counties Manakau DHB which is where the previous four Upper Hauraki cases have been recorded.

*Historical cases

Today there are three new historical cases at the border, increasing historical case count to 162.

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