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September 19, 2021
Ministry of Health Media Release: COVID-19 & vaccination update 19 September
Waatea Team
Posted On September 19, 2021
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Media release: 24 community cases of COVID-19; more than 50,000 vaccines administered yesterday
19 September
| Cases | |
| Number of new community cases | 24 |
| Number of new cases identified at the border | No new cases at the border today |
| Location of new cases | Auckland |
| Location of community cases (total) | Auckland 1,033 (671 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (all of whom have recovered) |
| *Number of community cases (total) | 1,050 (in current community outbreak) |
| Cases infectious in the community | Six (30%) of yesterday’s 20 cases have exposure events |
| Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infectious | 14 (70%) of yesterday’s 20 cases |
| Cases epidemiologically linked | 18 of today’s cases |
| Cases to be epidemiologically linked | 6 of today’s cases |
| Cases epidemiologically linked (total) | 1018 (in the current cluster) (12 in the past 14 days unlinked) |
| Number of sub-clusters | Nine epidemiologically linked subclusters. Of these, one is active, seven are contained and one is dormant. The three largest subclusters are the Māngere church group: 384; and Birkdale social network cluster: 80; secondary community transmission associated with the Māngere church group 167. There are ten epidemiologically unlinked subclusters. |
| Cases in hospital | 13 (total): North Shore (1); Middlemore (7); Auckland (5) |
| Cases in ICU or HDU | Four |
| Confirmed cases (total) | 3,704 since pandemic began |
| Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total) | 151 out of 1,886 since 1 Jan 2021 |
| Contacts | |
| Number of active contacts being managed (total): | 1,215 |
| Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements) | 85% |
| Percentage with at least one test result | 87% |
| Locations of interest | |
| Locations of interest (total) | 134 (as at 10am 19 September) |
| Tests | |
| Number of tests (total) | 3,232,551 |
| Number of tests total (last 24 hours) | 13,833 |
| Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours) | 5,028 |
| Tests rolling average (last 7 days) | 13,181 |
| Testing centres in Auckland | 20 |
| Wastewater | |
| Wastewater detections | There was a positive detection in a sample from Pukekohe collected on 15 September. This follows a positive detection on 8 September and non-detection on 10 September. The result is believed to be linked to known cases in the area. |
| COVID-19 vaccine update | |
| Vaccines administered to date (total) | 4,684,416; 1st doses: 3,078,338; 2nd doses: 1,606,078 |
| Vaccines administered yesterday (total) | 53,386; 1st doses: 28,946; 2nd doses: 24,440 |
| Māori | 1st doses: 289,716; 2nd doses: 140,473 |
| Pacific Peoples | 1st doses: 187,302; 2nd doses: 97,994 |
| NZ COVID-19 tracer | |
| Registered users (total) | 3,231,368 |
| Poster scans (total) | 368,748,795 |
| Manual diary entries (total) | 16,562,578 |
| Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday | 2,599,942 |
*Two previously reported cases have been re-classified as not cases, resulting in a net increase of 22 cases.
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