There are 15 new cases of Covid-19 in the community on Wednesday - all in Auckland, brining the total number of cases in this outbreak up to 855.
Of these cases, 25 remain unlinked.
Of the 20 cases identified on Tuesday, 15 are household contacts and five were potentially infectious while in the community.
Of the 38,000 contacts in the contact tracing system, 87% have been tested.
Testing numbers have picked up, after dropping off, with 13,230 tests processed on Tuesday.
Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said: “An Auckland Regional Public Health Service investigation into the source of the current community outbreak has concluded that transmission to a member of the public walking through the public atrium at the Crowne Plaza [managed isolation facility] is highly unlikely."
The Government's MIQ technical advisory group has recommended the Crowne Plaza can reopen and receive its next cohort of overseas returnees on Thursday, as planned.
Here is a summary from the Ministry of Health:
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Cases |
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Number of new community cases |
15 |
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Number of new cases identified at the border |
One |
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Location of new cases |
Auckland |
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Location of community cases (total) |
Auckland 838 (210 of whom have recovered); Wellington 17 (eight of whom have recovered) |
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Number of community cases (total) |
*855 (in current community outbreak) |
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Cases infectious in the community |
Five (25%) of yesterday’s cases have exposure events |
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Cases in isolation throughout the period they were infected |
15 (75%) of yesterday’s cases |
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Cases epidemiologically linked |
13 of today’s cases |
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Cases to be epidemiologically linked |
Two of today’s cases |
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Cases epidemiologically linked (total) |
830 (in current cluster) (25 unlinked) |
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Number of sub-clusters |
Eight epidemiologically linked subclusters. The two largest subclusters are the Mangere church group: 371; and Birkdale social network cluster: 76. |
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Cases in hospital |
37 (total): North Shore (8); Middlemore (14); Auckland (15) |
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Cases in ICU or HDU |
Six |
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Confirmed cases (total) |
3,473 since pandemic began |
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Historical cases, since 1 Jan 2021 (total) |
130 out of 1,655 since 1 Jan 2021 |
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Contacts |
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Number of contacts identified (total) |
38,018 |
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Percentage who have received outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements) |
87% |
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Percentage with at least one test result |
91% |
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Locations of interest |
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Locations of interest (total) |
126 (as at 10am 5 September) |
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Tests |
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Number of tests (total) |
3,082,577 |
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Number of tests total (last 24 hours) |
13,230 |
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Tests in Auckland (last 24 hours) |
8,566 |
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Tests rolling average (last 7 days) |
10,855 |
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Testing centres in Auckland |
21 |
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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) |
4,032,710; 1st doses: 2,662,131; 2nd doses: 1,370,579 |
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Vaccines administered yesterday (total) |
72,893; 1st doses: 49,594; 2nd doses: 23,299 |
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Māori |
1st doses: 245,139; 2nd doses: 120,907 |
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Pacific Peoples |
1st doses: 157,145; 2nd doses: 82,434 |
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NZ COVID-19 tracer |
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Registered users (total) |
3,169,906 |
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Poster scans (total) |
341,866,852 |
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Manual diary entries (total) |
15,654,896 |
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Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday |
1,018,481 |
57 Comments
close contact yes and if you are a household contact you will catch it
action for the contact
- Isolate/quarantine, either at home or in a managed facility, for 14 days from last exposure.
- Test immediately (unless it's within 1 day of your next scheduled test), and on day 5 after last exposure and day 12 after last exposure.
- If COVID-19 symptoms develop, get an additional test immediately.
This is advice for close contacts. Not household contacts of close contacts.
Just been reading up. It appears that if a member of your household is identified as a close contact other members of this household should isolate till the close contact has a day 5 test. However the use of the word "should" as apposed to "must" is interesting here. Clearly there is no legal requirement for these people (household contacts of close contacts) to isolate. Hence why we are still seeing people infectious in the community 1 month since the outbreak began.
“five were potentially infectious while in the community” that’s the crux of the matter isn’t it, and when previous similar cases are added in, that is quite obviously the greatest threat to the lockdown being ultimately successful, and the only measure of security for that is, well the lockdown itself and attachments. Like it or lump it, perseverance is therefore the only course on offer.
But they're not just pointless virtue signaling. They're pretty effective at preventing people who are infectious from spreading the disease.
Problem is that people think that masks will prevent the wearer from getting infected by an unmasked person which is less true. But if everyone wears them then transmission rates drop with almost no effort - wearing a mask isn't difficult unless you're a Republican.
Correct, they aren't pointless virtue signalling.
They aren't effective in all situations, and aren't being mandated in all situations as a result.
There are no silver bullets when fighting COVID, initially it looked like vaccines would be (or at least, very close) but unfortunately delta reproduces at such a prolific rate that infection and spread amongst vaccinated people is still fairly common.
lol, because there is a 100% chance that will happen.
No mask = Death
No vaccine = Death
standing closer than 2m = Death
I don't know who is worse, the Covid is the end of the world brigade or the vaccines contain nanobots linked to 5g brigade. It's One extreme to another, can no-one just sit rationally in the middle anymore?
Interesting article here commenting on workplaces abilities to restrict work options for the unvaccinated. All theoretical until tested in court.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion-analysis/300401535/could-the-n…
It will be interesting to see how this goes when it comes up against our current labour shortages.
Even 10% of the workforce refusing to comply with this could cause serious problems. I think given the Gen1 vaccinations relatively poor performance with Delta (and now Mu), it's reasonable for the young and healthy to try for natural immunity.
I think given the Gen1 vaccinations relatively poor performance with Delta (and now Mu), it's reasonable for the young and healthy to try for natural immunity.
Did you consider that you can do both? Get vaccinated and then get infected anyway, but not risk hospital or death because you were vaccinated first? and then if you don't get infected, there's nothing to worry about? And you don't have to worry about workplace restrictions? And if you're worried about side-effects from the pfizer vaccine then you really shouldn't be, because even young and healthy people are far more likely to have a serious problem with COVID than they are to have a serious side effect from the vaccine?
This seems to be the best case for all of us. Vaccination to reduce severity, natural immunity to reduce the spread.
I like the look of the novavax vaccine due next year.
I think my point still stands, for the young and healthy it's a gamble they can take. There aren't huge risks for them with either approach.
Did you consider that you can do both?
If you get vaccinated first, then you'll imprint your immune system antibodies to an old fashion spike protein, when the virus is already leagues ahead in terms of mutations. Every time you get exposed to covid your body will recall, and make the useless old fashion antibodies which dont work properly. This is the concept of "original antigenic sin". Why is nobody discussing this?
If you have natural immunity then why would you risk getting myocarditis, Bell's palsy etc. just to boost you IgG levels, because your IgG levels will skyrocket if you get reinfected anyway.
Because you have a higher chance of getting myocarditis from covid. Your biological understanding is tenuous. "Old fashioned antibodies" work a heck of a lot better than no antibodies which is why we are seeing the reduced death and injury rates in the vaccinated populations overseas.
covid19 induced myocarditis is very rare indeed. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0147956320303563
In New Zealand alone there've been 32 cases of myocarditis, 10 heart attacks, 45 haemorrages, 39 cases of Bells palsy... and on and on. and that's only what's reported. https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/COVID-19/safety-report-25.asp
Not sure how we can possibly still have infectious cases out in the community. Its a level 4 lockdown you Auckland idiots that means you should probably only be leaving the house every 2 weeks to do the supermarket shopping or better still try and get it delivered. Clearly people are still not taking it seriously enough and hence the Auckland lockdown will continue to drag on and on. Every time its a community case you add 2 weeks to the lockdown and at this rate you will be in Level 4 until Christmas.
its people still working , there are a still a huge number from warehouses to trucks to industries that are needed to keep going to feed the rest of the country especially the north island as most goods come through auckland, just heading into my job now and i will tell you later how much traffic i see still out there,
The only reason lockdowns are going on and on is because of Jacinda and her elimination vanity project.
No it's because we don't want to have thousands dying from COVID, with tens of thousands of others suffering long-term complications or having their other medical issues not addressed due to hospitals overflowing with COVID patients, as has happened in comparable countries elsewhere in the world.
That's not actually 'vanity', it's called 'good governance' and also 'the moral thing to do'.
Good governance? Moral?
Have we actually had a debate on the moral/ethical reasoning behind saving the elderly vs the young? the fat/unhealthy vs the fit/healthy?
If we had spent the covid money on kids in need, homeless, and mental health we would probably be a lot better off as a nation
Have we actually had a debate on the moral/ethical reasoning behind saving the elderly vs the young? the fat/unhealthy vs the fit/healthy?
Yes. It was called the 2020 election and Labour's popularity on the back of their COVID handling and approach, the repeated rejection of National's calls to open the border every 5 minutes, and continued polling, the most recent of which shows 5/6ths of NZers support the government's approach.
There's been plenty of right-wing idiots baying in the media that we should learn how to 'live' with COVID, and for the most part the public don't agree with them.
See also, the general lack of anti-lock down protests. There was one the other day in Auckland at which 1 person turned up.
Partly true, though the reality is still that any significant outbreak would overwhelm a health system that we can't practically equip to handle the situation. So for now, just for the next few months, lockdowns may be the only viable option.
The real test comes in the next few months when vaccination rates peak and the vaccinated then expect to be allowed to live freely.
We're actually pretty fortunate, in part through plain luck - we can observe how things pan out in NSW and VIC and probably consider their last few months AND next few months our WORST case outcome.
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Come on Brock.
Us having lockdowns whereas Sydney is moving to free up (although surrendering to Delta and future more virulent strains) is yet another reason you should be on your proposed way ASAP.
Many times you have described NZ as “toxic”, the Government as incompetent, our housing as only “sh*t boxes” . . .
Six months ago you were saying you were off as soon as “you lined up a few ducks” . . . so just when is this happening son?
It’s impossible to predict. Every individual will be different. Nephew in UK tall, fit strong & a mate almost the complete opposite. Both in 30’s both double jabbed, both caught Covid, might have been same place same time. Nephew saw it off similar to a reasonable dose of flu, the mate didn’t even know he had it.
Yes, glad to hear it, but the point being that neither were seriously ill. This seems to be the default for the majority whether vaccinated or not which begs the question of why healthy people need it at all. Since those vaccinated can still spread it, surely the only ones that need it are those who are vulnerable to it. There is a lot of contradiction around.
If you willing to cherry pick data and studies you can find evidence for almost anything when it comes to covid. There are many ways to get these statistics and you will find different numbers from different places.
Our numbers are most relevant to us for our ability to control outbreaks with grater vaccination.
There are official stats available for people interested in the numbers
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uplo…
table 5.
Thanks for the link. To add colour, here's some stats on vaccine status including for different age groups - over 50s ~ 80% fully vaccinated, 70+ ~90% vaccinated. i.e. the population of vaccinated people includes the vast majority of at risk people and if vaccines were ineffective you'd expect the vast majority of hospitalisations to be among the vaccinated.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55274833
In fact from your link, it looks like a small majority of those hospitalised are unvaccinated.
Only if you assume vaccinations are independently randomly distributed among the stated demographics. This is not the case.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/israel
Take Israel, they have similar case numbers to their last wave with very roughly half the deaths of the last wave. With greater than 90% percent of at risk age demographic vaxed the deaths should be much lower than what they are now (i would think it should be 19% of the last wave using 90% vaccine effectiveness). The most frail or at risk may be unable to be vaccinated is one theory.
Edit: There does seem to be a deaths/cases ratio much closer to 20% in the UK.
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