Ministry of Health update for 3 January 2022.
Omicron update
There are no community Omicron cases to report.
There are no new Omicron cases at the border to report.
Testing continues for the contacts of the border-related Omicron case with community exposures, first announced on Wednesday. To date, all test results received from these contacts have been negative.
Hospitalisations
- Cases in hospital: 44; North Shore: 6; Auckland: 12; Middlemore: 22; Tauranga: 3 Lakes: 1
- Vaccination status of current hospitalisations (Northern Region wards only): Unvaccinated or not eligible (21 cases / 53.9%); partially immunised <7 days from second dose or have only received one dose (3 cases / 7.7%); fully vaccinated at least 7 days before being reported as a case (15 cases / 38.5%); unknown (0)
- Average age of current hospitalisations: 56
- Cases in ICU or HDU: 5 (3 in Middlemore; 2 in Tauranga)
Cases
- Seven day rolling average of community cases: 42.1
- Number of new community cases: 27
- Number of new cases identified at the border: 24
- Location of new community cases: Auckland (12), Waikato (7), Bay of Plenty (7), Lakes (1)
- Number of community cases (total): 10,954 (in current community outbreak)
- Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 8,208
- Number of active cases (total): 1,138 (cases identified in the past 21 days and not yet classified as recovered)
- Confirmed cases (total): 13,934
Test and results are provided by way of the PCR test.
