Number of new cases identified at the border: One historical case
Location of new community cases: Auckland
Location of community cases (total): Auckland (including 4 cases in Upper Hauraki) 1,114 (886 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (all of whom have recovered)
*Number of community cases (total): 1,131 (in current community outbreak)
Cases infectious in the community: Seven (50%) of yesterday’s *14 cases have exposure events
Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious: Seven (50%) of yesterday’s *14 cases
Cases epidemiologically linked: All of today’s nine cases are linked. Three are household contacts and six are contacts of known cases.
Cases to be epidemiologically linked: N/A
Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 1096 (in the current cluster) (14 in the past 14 days not yet epi-linked and not connected to a cluster)
Number of sub-clusters: 10 epidemiologically linked subclusters. Of these, two are active, six are contained and two are dormant. The three largest subclusters are the Māngere church group: 386; and Birkdale social network cluster: 80; secondary community transmission associated with the Māngere church group 168.
There are fourteen epidemiologically unlinked subclusters. Of these, three are active, four are contained, seven are dormant.
Cases in hospital: 13 (total): North Shore (1); Middlemore (6); Auckland (6)
Cases in ICU or HDU: Three
Confirmed cases (total): 3,788 since pandemic began
Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total): 154 out of 1,970 since 1 Jan 2021
Contacts
Number of active contacts being managed (total): 1,053
Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 93%
Percentage with at least one test result: 90%
Locations of interest
Locations of interest (total): 140 (as at 10am 24 September)
Tests
Number of tests (total): 3,301,910
Number of tests total (last 24 hours): 14,855
Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours): 6,928
Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 13,660
Testing centres in Auckland: 21
Wastewater
Wastewater detections: No unexpected detections in the last 24 hours
COVID-19 vaccine update
Vaccines administered to date (total): 4,917,531; 1st doses: 3,192,380; 2nd doses: 1,725,151
*One of the 15 cases reported yesterday has been reclassified as under investigation, therefore the total number of community cases associated with this outbreak has increased by eight.