Sep 2: Community cases down to 49 but 6 in hospital ICU

From the Ministry of Health:

As part of the now established rhythm of providing information about the current cluster, the Ministry of Health’s daily 1pm statement will focus on the data reporting on key actions being taken to support the COVID-19 response from the health sector.  The explanation about the actions in the COVID-19 response and the context for the data will be provided in the regular media stand-up.  

Cases  
Number of new community cases 49
Number of new cases identified at the border 4
Location of new cases Auckland (49)
Location of community cases (total) Auckland 720; Wellington 16
Number of community cases (total) 736 (in current community outbreak)
Cases infectious in the community 36% of yesterday’s cases have exposure events
Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infected 64% of yesterday’s cases
Cases epidemiologically linked 34 of today’s cases
Cases to be epidemiologically linked 15 of today’s cases
Cases epidemiologically linked (total) 671 (in current cluster) (65 unlinked)
Number of sub-clusters Seven.  The two largest subclusters are the Mangere church group: 332; and Birkdale social network cluster: 75
Cases in hospital 42 (total): North Shore (8); Middlemore (19); Auckland (15).
Cases in ICU or HDU 6
Confirmed cases (total) 3,340 since pandemic began
Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total) 126 out of 1,526 since 1 Jan 2021
Contacts  
Number of contacts identified (total) 37,359
Percentage who have received outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements) 81%
Percentage with at least one test result 86%
Locations of interest  
Locations of interest (total) 308 (as at 12pm, 2 September)
Tests  
Number of tests (total) 3,024,268
Number of tests total (last 24 hours) 17,683
Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours) 6,757
Tests rolling average (last 7 days) 24,222
Testing centres in Auckland 25
Wastewater  
Wastewater detections No unexpected detections in past 24 hours
Whole genome sequencing  
Links to current outbreak 469 cases to date have been sequenced.
COVID-19 vaccine update  
Vaccines administered to date (total) 3.59m; 1st doses: 2.35m; 2nd doses: 1.23m
Vaccines administered yesterday (total) 89,546; 1st doses: 62,218; 2nd doses: 27,328
Mâori 1st doses: 215,248; 2nd doses: 110,762
Pacific Peoples 1st doses:138,733; 2nd doses: 75,578
NZ COVID-19 tracer  
Registered users (total) 3,132,649
Poster scans (total) 335,540,705
Manual diary entries (total) 15,136,609
Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday 983,104



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.

New cases identified at the border

Arrival date From Via Positive test day/reason Managed isolation/quarantine location
28 August* Afghanistan Australia Day 3 / routine Auckland
28 August* Afghanistan Australia Day 3 / routine Auckland
28 August Germany Singapore Day 3 / routine Auckland
30 August United Kingdom United Arab Emirates Day 1 / routine Auckland



*These cases were in a travel bubble together.

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