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20 Community Cases Of COVID-19; 4 New Cases In Managed Isolation; 1 Historical Case
20 community cases of COVID-19; four new cases in managed isolation; one historical case; over 76,000 vaccines administered yesterday
5
September
| Cases | |
| Number of new community cases | 20 |
| Number of new cases identified at the border | Four |
| Location of new cases | Auckland |
| Location of community cases (total) | *Auckland 784 (79 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (three of whom have recovered) |
| Number of community cases (total) | 801 (in current community outbreak) |
| Cases infectious in the community | Six (30%) of yesterday’s cases have exposure events |
| Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infected | 14 (70%) of yesterday’s cases |
| Cases epidemiologically linked | 17 of today’s cases |
| Cases to be epidemiologically linked | Three of today’s cases |
| Cases epidemiologically linked (total) | 774 (in current cluster) (27 unlinked) |
| Number of sub-clusters | Eight epidemiologically linked
subclusters. The two largest subclusters are the Mangere
church group: 356; and Birkdale social network cluster:
75. And six epidemiologically unlinked subclusters. |
| Cases in hospital | 38 (total): North Shore (9); Middlemore (16); Auckland (13) |
| Cases in ICU or HDU | Six |
| Confirmed cases (total) | 3,412 since pandemic began |
| Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total) | 128 out of 1,594 since 1 Jan 2021 |
| Contacts | |
| Number of contacts identified (total) | 38,120 |
| Percentage who have received outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements) | 86% |
| Percentage with at least one test result | 90% |
| Locations of interest | |
| Locations of interest (total) | 136 (as at 10am 5 September) |
| *Tests | |
| Number of tests (total) | 3,057,343 |
| Number of tests total (last 24 hours) | 9,238 |
| Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours) | 2,592 |
| Tests rolling average (last 7 days) | 15,148 |
| Testing centres in Auckland | 22 |
| Wastewater | |
| Wastewater detections | No unexpected detections in past 24 hours. |
| COVID-19 vaccine update | |
| Vaccines administered to date (total) | 3,850,611; 1st doses: 2,537,434; 2nd doses: 1,313,176 |
| Vaccines administered yesterday (total) | 76,812; 1st doses: 54,408; 2nd doses: 22,404 |
| Māori | 1st doses: 232,577; 2nd doses: 116,490 |
| Pacific Peoples | 1st doses:149,536; 2nd doses: 79,510 |
| NZ COVID-19 tracer | |
| Registered users (total) | 3,148,302 |
| Poster scans (total) | 338,720,468 |
| Manual diary entries (total) | 15,380,675 |
| Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday | 1,059,837 |
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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 case has been reclassified as not a case.
A previously reported border case from July has been reclassified as historical. This case was a crew member on board the Playa Zahara who has now left the country.
New cases identified at the border
| Arrival date | From | Via | Positive test day/reason | Managed isolation/quarantine location |
| 23 August | USA | Direct | Day 12 / routine | Auckland |
| 28 August | Afghanistan | Australia | Day 6 / routine | Auckland |
| 15 August | Philippines | Australia | Day 2 / routine | Auckland |
| TBC | Full travel history to be confirmed | Day 1 / routine | Auckland |
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