Daily COVID-19 update - 20 community cases

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Daily COVID-19 update - 20 community cases

Media release from the Ministry of Health

Sunday 5 September 2021, 01:10 PM

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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

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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