There are 22 new Covid-19 cases to report in the community on Monday, including the three cases announced in Whakatīwai on Sunday evening.
The Ministry of Health said there will be a further update on the latest cases on Monday afternoon.
The total number of people with the virus in this outbreak is now 1071, made up of 1051 in Auckland and Whakatīwai (within the Counties Mānakau District Health Board catchment) and 17 in Wellington.
Now, 694 of these people have recovered.
Of Monday's new cases, 17 have been linked to the existing cluster and the remaining five are under investigation to establish a link.
There are now 16 people with Covid-19 in hospital, including four in intensive care. There are 10 cases at Middlemore Hospital, five at Auckland City Hospital and one at North Shore Hospital.
There are now 1289 contacts being managed in this outbreak, of which 85 per cent have received at least one Covid-19 test.
As of 1.30pm on Monday, there are 142 locations of interest on the Minister of Health website.
On Sunday, 8084 tests for Covid-19 were processed in New Zealand, adding to a total of 3.24 million since the pandemic began.
“There has been a good community turn out for testing in Kaiaua this morning. By 11am today, 150 swabs had been taken. The Waikato DHB has reported wait times of about 30 minutes,” the ministry said.
“Testing in the seven suburbs is continuing with 946 tests taken yesterday across Mt Eden, Massey, Māngere, Favona, Papatoetoe, Ōtara and Manurewa.
“The Ministry has asked people in these areas, both with symptoms and without, to get tested to help rule out undetected community transmission. Today we are asking in particular for anyone living in Clover Park, on the south east side of Papatoetoe, to please get tested.”
As well on Sunday, 26,673 Covid-19 vaccines were administered in New Zealand, made up of 14,145 first doses and 12,528 second doses.
There has been more than 4.71 million doses of the vaccine administered in New Zealand to date.
Meanwhile, there was one new Covid-19 case found at the border – a person who arrived from the UK via the United Arab Emirates on September 10. They tested positive on day nine in Auckland.
“After further investigation, including retesting, the positive Covid-19 test result returned by the SO Hotel MIQ facility worker last week has been determined to be a false positive,” the ministry said.
“The individual has been notified and will be able to be released from the quarantine facility today. The Ministry of Health would like to thank the person for their cooperation.”
These changes mean there has now been 3725 confirmed coronavirus cases in New Zealand since the pandemic began.
There is no unexpected Covid-19 wastewater detections to report on Monday.
The numbers were released in a statement on Monday as there was no 1pm live press conference.
Cabinet are meeting Monday before providing an update on the country's alert levels at 4pm.
Due to the Covid-19 Delta outbreak the city has been in the highest level of lockdown for more than a month.
Auckland is currently at Alert Level 4 and the rest of the country at Level 2.
The announcement will be broadcast on TVNZ1, 1news.co.nz and the 1News Facebook page.
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