There were 23,016 total vaccine doses administered yesterday, including 1,578 first doses and 7,258 second doses. To date, 95% of eligible people in New Zealand have had their first dose (partially vaccinated) and 91% are double-dosed (fully vaccinated).

Eleven DHBs are now fully vaccinated to 90% or higher, with Hawke’s Bay and Waikato next in line on 89%, with 823 and 2,147 doses left to go respectively before reaching this milestone.

Holiday reminder

People should stick to the basics to reduce the risk of catching and spreading COVID-19 over the Christmas and New Year break.

That means wearing a mask or face covering and physical distancing in crowded or unventilated spaces and scanning in using the COVID-19 Tracer app or keeping a manual diary.

As always, people who have any symptoms that could be COVID-19 are asked to get a test and stay at home until they receive a negative result.

The vaccine remains our key defence against all variants of COVID-19, including Omicron. We continue to ask everyone who is eligible to get vaccinated, including people who are now eligible for a booster dose.

Testing and vaccination centre locations nationwide can be found on the Healthpoint website.

COVID-19 vaccine update

• Vaccines administered to date (percentage of eligible people): 3,969,641 first doses (95%); 3,822,918 second doses (91%); 26,971 third primary doses; 253,269 booster doses
• Vaccines administered yesterday: 1,578 first doses; 7,258 second doses; 807 third primary doses and 13,373 booster doses.
• Māori (percentage of eligible people): 498,442 first doses (87%); 450,999 second doses (79%)
• Pacific Peoples (percentage of eligible people): 270,488 first doses (94%); 255,815 second doses (89%)

Vaccination rates by DHB with active cases (percentage of eligible people)

• Northland DHB: First doses (88%); second doses (83%)
• Auckland Metro DHBs: First doses (96%); second doses (93%)
• Waikato DHB: First doses (93%); second doses (89%)
• Bay of Plenty DHB: First doses (93%); second doses (88%)
• Lakes DHB: First doses (92%); second doses (86%)
• Taranaki DHB: First doses (93%); second doses (88%)
• Hawke’s Bay DHB: First doses (94%); second doses (89%)
• Hutt Valley DHB: First doses (95%); second doses (92%)
• Nelson-Marlborough DHB: First doses (95%); second doses (90%)
• Canterbury DHB: First doses (98%); second doses (95%)

Hospitalisations

• Cases in hospital: 48; North Shore: 8; Auckland: 19; Middlemore: 18; Waikato: 2; Tauranga: 1
• Vaccination status of current hospitalisations (Northern Region wards only): Unvaccinated or not eligible (24 cases / 54%); partially immunised <7 days from second dose or have only received one dose (6 cases / 13%); fully vaccinated at least 7 days before being reported as a case (11 cases/ 24%); unknown (4 cases / 9%)
• Average age of current hospitalisations: 49
• Cases in ICU or HDU: 7 (1 in North Shore; 2 in Auckland; 4 in Middlemore)

Cases

• Seven day rolling average of community cases: 58.1
• Number of new community cases: 56
• Number of new cases identified at the border: 4
• Location of new community cases: Auckland (42), Waikato (4), Bay of Plenty (6), Lakes (2), Tairāwhiti* (1), and Taranaki (1).
• Number of community cases (total): 10,432 (in current community outbreak)
• Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 7,777
• Number of active cases (total): 1,537 (cases identified in the past 21 days and not yet classed as recovered)
• Confirmed cases (total): 13,278**

*Please note, the Tairāwhiti’s case was tested, and is currently located, in the Tauranga area. This case has been officially transferred to Tairāwhiti’s case numbers as they have a permanent Tairāwhiti address.

**A case in Auckland reported as ‘under investigation’ since the end of November has now been confirmed a case and is reflected in the overall confirmed case numbers to date.

Contacts

• Number of active contacts being managed (total): 6,482
• Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 86%
• Percentage who have returned at least one result: 80%

Tests

• Number of tests total (last 24 hours): 21,963
• Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 18,818
• Auckland tests total (last 24 hours): 11,490

Wastewater

• Wastewater update below

NZ COVID Tracer

• Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 2,439,398
• Manual diary entries in 24 hours to midday: 32,625

My Vaccine Pass

• My vaccine passes issued total: 4,488,461
• My vaccine passes issued (last 24 hours): 28,877