There are 20 new community cases of COVID-19 reported by the Ministry of Health today. There are three new cases in managed isolation and one historical case. More than 61,000 vaccines were administered yesterday.
The Government has secured an extra half a million doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines from Denmark that will start arriving in New Zealand within days, says Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
The Prime Minister and Dr Ashley Bloomfield have fronted Sunday's 1pm Covid-19 update briefing - click on video to follow the live update.
There were over 40 ‘exposure events' reported in the Auckland community yesterday, however Dr Bloomfield says there is no wide-spread community cases in Auckland.
The historical case identified at the border arrived in NZ on September 7 from Sweden via Denmark and United Arab Emirates. They tested positive during routine testing on Day 1 and are in managed isolation in Christchurch.
All three new cases identified at the border arrived on September 4 and tested positive on day 6 during routine testing. One arrived from Serbia and Montenegro , one arrived from India, and one still has full travel history to be confirmed. All arrived via United Arab Emirates and are in managed isolation in Auckland.
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Cases |
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Number of new community cases |
20 |
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Number of new cases identified at the border |
Three (and one historical) |
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Location of new cases |
Auckland |
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Location of community cases (total) |
Auckland 905 (342 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (10 of whom have recovered) |
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Number of community cases (total) |
922 (in current community outbreak) |
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Cases infectious in the community |
Ten (43%) of yesterday's 23 cases have exposure events |
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Cases not infectious in the community |
13 (57%) of yesterday's 23 cases |
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Cases epidemiologically linked |
12 of today's cases |
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Cases to be epidemiologically linked |
Eight of today's cases |
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Cases epidemiologically linked (total) |
888 (in current cluster) (34 unlinked) |
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Number of sub-clusters |
Eight epidemiologically linked subclusters. The two largest subclusters are the Mangere church group: 379; and Birkdale social network cluster: 76. There are nine epidemiologically unlinked subclusters. |
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Cases in hospital |
18 (total): North Shore (4); Middlemore (8); Auckland (6) |
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Cases in ICU or HDU |
Four |
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Confirmed cases (total) |
3,557 since the pandemic began |
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Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total) |
140 out of 1,739 since 1 Jan 2021 |
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Contacts |
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Number of contacts identified (total) |
38,538 |
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Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements) |
87% |
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Percentage with at least one test result |
92% |
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Locations of interest |
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Locations of interest (total) |
133 (as at 10am 12 September) |
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Tests |
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Number of tests (total) |
3,140,288 |
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Number of tests total (last 24 hours) |
10,958 |
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Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours) |
4,928 |
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Tests rolling average (last 7 days) |
11,884 |
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Testing centres in Auckland |
19 |
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Wastewater |
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Wastewater detections |
No unexpected detections in the past 24 hours |
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COVID-19 vaccine update |
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Vaccines administered to date (total) |
4,291,272; 1st doses: 2,841,961; 2nd doses: 1,449,311 |
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Vaccines administered yesterday (total) |
61,810; 1st doses: 38,617; 2nd doses: 23,193 |
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Māori |
1st doses: 263,921; 2nd doses: 127,009 |
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Pacific Peoples |
1st doses: 171,158; 2nd doses: 87,335 |
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NZ COVID-19 tracer |
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Registered users (total) |
3,206,211 |
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Poster scans (total) |
352,002,725 |
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Manual diary entries (total) |
16,047,758 |
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Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday |
2,600,276 |
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.
Auckland is at level 4 until 11.59pm on Tuesday, September 14. Cabinet is set to meet Monday to look at changes to that level. The rest of New Zealand is in alert level 2.
Contact tracing locations of interest are being updated throughout the day.
Testing location details are here.
More than 250,000 extra doses of the Pfizer vaccine have arrived in Auckland from Spain.
Support for businesses is available at lower alert levels. More information is available here.
If you have symptoms of Covid-19 or a cold or flu, stay home and call Healthline on 0800 611 116
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