MINISTRY OF HEALTH UPDATE
September 8, 2021
| Cases | |
| Number of new community cases | 15 |
| Number of new cases identified at the border | One |
| Location of new cases | Auckland |
| Location of community cases (total) | Auckland 838 (210 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (eight of whom have recovered) |
| Number of community cases (total) | *855 (in current community outbreak) |
| Cases infectious in the community | Five (25%) of yesterday’s cases have exposure events |
| Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infected | 15 (75%) of yesterday’s cases |
| Cases epidemiologically linked | 13 of today’s cases |
| Cases to be epidemiologically linked | Two of today’s cases |
| Cases epidemiologically linked (total) | 830 (in current cluster) (25 unlinked) |
| Number of sub-clusters | Eight epidemiologically linked sub-clusters. The two largest sub-clusters are the Mangere church group: 371; and Birkdale social network cluster: 76. And nine epidemiologically unlinked sub-clusters. |
| Cases in hospital | 37 (total): North Shore (8); Middlemore (14); Auckland (15) |
| Cases in ICU or HDU | Six |
| Confirmed cases (total) | 3473 since pandemic began |
| Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total) | 130 out of 1,655 since 1 Jan 2021 |
| Contacts | |
| Number of contacts identified (total) | 38,018 |
| Percentage who have received outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements) | 87% |
| Percentage with at least one test result | 91% |
| Locations of interest | |
| Locations of interest (total) | 126 (as at 10am 5 September) |
| Tests | |
| Number of tests (total) | 3,082,577 |
| Number of tests total (last 24 hours) | 13,230 |
| Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours) | 8566 |
| Tests rolling average (last 7 days) | 10,855 |
| Testing centres in Auckland | 21 |
| Wastewater | |
| Wastewater detections | No unexpected detections in past 24 hours |
| COVID-19 vaccine update | |
| Vaccines administered to date (total) | 4,032,710; 1st doses: 2,662,131; 2nd doses: 1,370,579 |
| Vaccines administered yesterday (total) | 72,893; 1st doses: 49,594; 2nd doses: 23,299 |
| Māori | 1st doses: 245,139; 2nd doses: 120,907 |
| Pacific Peoples | 1st doses: 157,145; 2nd doses: 82,434 |
| NZ COVID-19 tracer | |
| Registered users (total) | 3,169,906 |
| Poster scans (total) | 341,866,852 |
| Manual diary entries (total) | 15,654,896 |
| Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday | 1,018,481 |
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 community case has been reclassified as a border case. The total number of cases associated with this outbreak has increased by 14 since yesterday.
New cases identified at the border
| Arrival date | From | Via | Positive test day/reason | Managed isolation/quarantine location |
| 4 September | Philippines | Singapore | Day 1 / routine | Rotorua |
