There are 20 new community cases of COVID-19 announced today. There are also four new cases in managed isolation, and one historical case. Over 76,000 vaccines were administered yesterday.
New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson and Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield are providing an update on the Covid-19 lockdown today.
All of New Zealand, excluding Auckland, is at alert level 3, with Auckland in level 4. Cabinet is due to review alert levels for the country on Monday, with Auckland's settings being reviewed the following Monday.
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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 |
Four |
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Location of new cases |
Auckland |
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Location of community cases (total) |
*Auckland 784 (79 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (three of whom have recovered) |
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Number of community cases (total) |
801 (in current community outbreak) |
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Cases infectious in the community |
Six (30%) of yesterday's cases have exposure events |
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Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infected |
14 (70%) of yesterday's cases |
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Cases epidemiologically linked |
17 of today's cases |
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Cases to be epidemiologically linked |
Three of today's cases |
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Cases epidemiologically linked (total) |
774 (in current cluster) (27 unlinked) |
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Number of sub-clusters |
Eight epidemiologically linked subclusters. The two largest subclusters are the Mangere church group: 356; and Birkdale social network cluster: 75. |
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Cases in hospital |
38 (total): North Shore (9); Middlemore (16); Auckland (13) |
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Cases in ICU or HDU |
Six |
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Confirmed cases (total) |
3,412 since pandemic began |
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Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total) |
128 out of 1,594 since 1 Jan 2021 |
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Contacts |
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Number of contacts identified (total) |
38,120 |
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Percentage who have received outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements) |
86% |
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Percentage with at least one test result |
90% |
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Locations of interest |
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Locations of interest (total) |
136 (as at 10am 5 September) |
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*Tests |
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Number of tests (total) |
3,057,343 |
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Number of tests total (last 24 hours) |
9,238 |
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Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours) |
2,592 |
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Tests rolling average (last 7 days) |
15,148 |
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Testing centres in Auckland |
22 |
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Wastewater |
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Wastewater detections |
No unexpected detections in past 24 hours. |
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COVID-19 vaccine update |
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Vaccines administered to date (total) |
3,850,611; 1st doses: 2,537,434; 2nd doses: 1,313,176 |
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Vaccines administered yesterday (total) |
76,812; 1st doses: 54,408; 2nd doses: 22,404 |
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Māori |
1st doses: 232,577; 2nd doses: 116,490 |
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Pacific Peoples |
1st doses:149,536; 2nd doses: 79,510 |
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NZ COVID-19 tracer |
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Registered users (total) |
3,148,302 |
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Poster scans (total) |
338,720,468 |
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Manual diary entries (total) |
15,380,675 |
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Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday |
1,059,837 |
The Ministry of Health advise that there may be some delays in providing data in some instances. On these occasions they 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
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Arrival date |
From |
Via |
Positive test day/reason |
Managed isolation/quarantine location |
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23 August |
USA |
Direct |
Day 12 / routine |
Auckland |
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28 August |
Afghanistan |
Australia |
Day 6 / routine |
Auckland |
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15 August |
Philippines |
Australia |
Day 2 / routine |
Auckland |
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TBC |
Full travel history to be confirmed |
Day 1 / routine |
Auckland |
There were 20 community cases in Auckland announced on Saturday, all linked to the Delta outbreak. On Saturday, it was also reported that a woman in her 90s with Covid-19 and underlying health conditions had died in hospital.
It is the first Covid-related death in New Zealand since February and the woman becomes the 27th person to die of the virus in the country.
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