Tuesday: 21 new Covid cases, "all numbers moving the right direction."
by
Peter Newport
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Sep 07, 2021
From the Ministry of Health:
7 September 2021
| Cases | |
| Number of new community cases | 21. There’s one additional case which is yet to be classified as either a community case or a border case. This is being investigated. |
| Number of new cases identified at the border | Zero |
| Location of new cases | Auckland |
| Location of community cases (total) | Auckland 824 (138 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (eight of whom have recovered) |
| Number of community cases (total) | 841 (in current community outbreak). Note one of the previously reported cases has been reclassified as a duplicate. |
| Cases infectious in the community | Four (20%) of yesterday’s cases have exposure events – all of which predated the request to isolate. |
| Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infected | 16 (76%) of yesterday’s cases |
| Cases epidemiologically linked | 20 of today’s cases |
| Cases to be epidemiologically linked | One from today’s cases |
| Cases epidemiologically linked (total) | 817 (in current cluster) (24 unlinked) |
| Number of sub-clusters | Eight epidemiologically linked subclusters. The two largest subclusters are the Mangere church group: 368; and Birkdale social network cluster: 76. There are nine epidemiologically unlinked subclusters. |
| Cases in hospital | 39 (total): North Shore (7); Auckland (17) Middlemore (15); |
| Cases in ICU or HDU | 6 |
| Confirmed cases (total) | 3,813 since pandemic began |
| Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total) ** | 130 out of 1,639 since 1 Jan 2021 |
| Contacts | |
| Number of contacts identified (total) * | 37,971 |
| 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) | 114 (as at 10am 7 September) |
| Tests | |
| Number of tests (total) | 3,069,348 |
| Number of tests total (last 24 hours) | 7,255 |
| Tests rolling average (last 7 days) | 12,131 |
| Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours) | 5,852 |
| Testing centres in Auckland | 22 |
| Wastewater | |
| Wastewater detections | No unexpected detections in the past 24 hours. |
| COVID-19 vaccine update | |
| Vaccines administered to date (total) | 3,958,607; 1st doses: 2,611,510; 2nd doses: 1,347,097 |
| Vaccines administered yesterday (total) | 66,310; 1st doses: 44,641; 2nd doses: 21,669 |
| Mâori | 1st doses: 239,661; 2nd doses: 118,866 |
| Pacific Peoples | 1st doses: 154,196; 2nd doses: 81,272 |
| NZ COVID-19 tracer | |
| Registered users (total) | 3,160,760 |
| Poster scans (total) | 340,588,751 |
| Manual diary entries (total) | 15,564,652 |
| Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday | 907,213 |
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