Sep 8th: New Covid cases drop to 15

Sep 08, 2021

From the Ministry of Health:

8 September

Cases  
Number of new community cases 15
Number of new cases identified at the border One
Location of new cases Auckland
Location of community cases (total) Auckland 838 (210 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (eight of whom have recovered)
Number of community cases (total) *855 (in current community outbreak)
Cases infectious in the community Five (25%) of yesterday’s cases have exposure events
Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infected 15 (75%) of yesterday’s cases
Cases epidemiologically linked 13 of today’s cases
Cases to be epidemiologically linked Two of today’s cases
Cases epidemiologically linked (total) 830 (in current cluster) (25 unlinked)
Number of sub-clusters Eight epidemiologically linked subclusters. The two largest subclusters are the Mangere church group: 371; and Birkdale social network cluster: 76.
And nine epidemiologically unlinked subclusters.
Cases in hospital 37 (total): North Shore (8); Middlemore (14); Auckland (15)
Cases in ICU or HDU Six
Confirmed cases (total) 3,473 since pandemic began
Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total) 130 out of 1,655 since 1 Jan 2021
Contacts  
Number of contacts identified (total) 38,018
Percentage who have received outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements) 87%
Percentage with at least one test result 91%
Locations of interest  
Locations of interest (total) 126 (as at 10am 5 September)
Tests  
Number of tests (total) 3,082,577
Number of tests total (last 24 hours) 13,230
Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours) 8,566
Tests rolling average (last 7 days) 10,855
Testing centres in Auckland 21
Wastewater  
Wastewater detections No unexpected detections in past 24 hours
COVID-19 vaccine update  
Vaccines administered to date (total) 4,032,710; 1st doses: 2,662,131; 2nd doses: 1,370,579
Vaccines administered yesterday (total) 72,893; 1st doses: 49,594; 2nd doses: 23,299
Māori 1st doses: 245,139; 2nd doses: 120,907
Pacific Peoples 1st doses: 157,145; 2nd doses: 82,434
NZ COVID-19 tracer  
Registered users (total) 3,169,906
Poster scans (total) 341,866,852
Manual diary entries (total) 15,654,896
Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday 1,018,481



There may be some delays in providing data in some instances. On these occasions we will use data from the day before and clearly note this.

*A previously reported community case has been reclassified as a border case. The total number of cases associated with this outbreak has increased by 14 since yesterday.

New cases identified at the border

Arrival date From Via Positive test day/reason Managed isolation/quarantine location
4 September Philippines Singapore Day 1 / routine Rotorua

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