27 new Covid-19 cases in Delta outbreak today

October 2, 2021

There are 27 new Covid-19 cases in the community on Saturday, including another person who presented at Middlemore Hospital for an unrelated reason, the Ministry of Health has confirmed.

Of the new cases, 14 are household contacts of existing cases and eight are known contacts. The remaining five are under investigation to find a link.

All of the new cases are in Auckland.

"Due to the highly infectious nature of the Delta variant within households, we expect to see fluctuations in case numbers at this stage in the outbreak," the ministry said.

The total number of cases in this Delta outbreak is now 1295. Of these, 1068 have since recovered.

There are now 22 people with Covid-19 in hospital, including three in intensive care. There are 13 at Middlemore Hospital, six at Auckland City Hospital and three at North Shore Hospital.

There are now 1002 contacts linked to the current outbreak, of which 81 per cent have been contacted and 70 per cent have received at least one test.

As of 1pm Saturday, there are 98 locations of interest on the Minsitry of Health's website , including six new locations.

On Friday, 22,041 tests for Covid-19 were taken, including more than 13,083 swabs in the Auckland region.

Since the pandemic began, more than 3.41 million tests for the coronavirus have been processed.

"We would like to thank everyone in Tāmaki Makaurau who has come forward to be tested," the ministry said.

"Yesterday 2,878 tests were received from our seven suburbs of interest. We are encouraging anyone living in these suburbs, both with and without Covid-19 symptoms, to get tested. These suburbs are Clover Park, Māngere, Favona, Manurewa, Mount Wellington/Sylvia Park, Henderson and Papakura."

Also on Friday, 47,512 vaccines were administered in New Zealand, made up of 12,278 first doses and 35,234 second doses.

In total, more than 5.26 million Covid-19 vaccines have been administered in New Zealand.

There were no unexpected wastewater detections in the last 24 hours.

Meanwhile, the ministry said whole genome sequencing has identified a clear epidemiological link between the Naumi MIQ worker who was reported as a positive case on Thursday and another case at the border.

"The worker tested positive on 29 September as part of routine surveillance testing. They are fully vaccinated and have been tested regularly. The hours they worked mean they had limited contact with guests at the hotel. They are now isolating in a quarantine facility," the ministry said.

"An investigation is underway to determine the pathway of the worker’s infection and identify potential contacts."

Saturday's update comes as Auckland remains at Alert Level 3 and the rest of the country at Level 2.

Hundreds of people have gathered in Auckland to protest the current lockdown . The event is being organised by Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki.

As well Saturday, there was one new Covid-19 case found at the border. They arrived from the Maldives via the United Arab Emirates on September 18 and tested positive on day 12 in Auckland.

There has now been 3962 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in New Zealand since the pandemic began.

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