There were 21,338 total vaccine doses administered yesterday, including 1,413 first doses and 7,135 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).

Hawke’s Bay and Waikato DHBs are inching closer to the 90% fully vaccinated milestone.

Hawkes Bay DHB has just 415 second doses to go and Waikato has just 1,436 second doses to go. This will soon mean 13 DHBs in total are fully vaccinated to 90 percent or higher.

Holiday reminder

No one wants to get COVID-19 (or any other illness) for Christmas, so we’re asking everyone to play their part to reduce the spread of the virus.

Anyone with any symptoms that could be COVID-19, is asked to get a test, and stay at home until they receive a negative result and are feeling better. 

Testing locations nationwide can be found on the Healthpoint website.

People who are out and about today are asked to wear a mask and maintain physical distance in crowded or poorly ventilated indoor spaces and scan in using the COVID-19 Tracer app.

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.

COVID-19 vaccine update

• Vaccines administered to date (percentage of eligible people): 3,971,055 first doses (95%); 3,830,209 second doses (91%); 27,613 third primary doses; 265,497 booster doses
• Vaccines administered yesterday: 1,413 first doses; 7,135 second doses; 662 third primary doses and 12,128 booster doses.
• Māori (percentage of eligible people): 498,945 first doses (87%); 453,526 second doses (79%)
• Pacific Peoples (percentage of eligible people): 269,120 first doses (94%); 255,447 second doses (89%)

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

• Northland DHB: First doses (88%); second doses (84%)
• 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 (87%)
• 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 (91%)
• Canterbury DHB: First doses (98%); second doses (95%)

Hospitalisations

• Cases in hospital: 45; North Shore: 6; Auckland: 17; Middlemore: 18; Waikato: 2; Tauranga: 2
• Vaccination status of current hospitalisations (Northern Region wards only): Unvaccinated or not eligible (24 cases / 60%); partially immunised <7 days from second dose or have only received one dose (5 cases / 12%); fully vaccinated at least 7 days before being reported as a case (10 cases/ 25%); unknown (1 cases / 2%)
• Average age of current hospitalisations: 50
• Cases in ICU or HDU: 8 (1 in North Shore; 2 in Auckland; 4 in Middlemore; 1 in Tauranga)

Cases

• Seven day rolling average of community cases: 51.4
• Number of new community cases: 62
• Number of new cases identified at the border: 10
• Location of new community cases: Auckland (37), Waikato (5), Bay of Plenty (14), Lakes (5), Canterbury (1).
• Number of community cases (current community outbreak total): 10,493
• Cases epidemiologically linked (total): 7,818
• Number of active cases (total cases identified in the past 21 days and not yet classed as recovered): 1,491
• Confirmed cases (total): 13,349

Contacts

• Number of active contacts being managed (total): 6,448
• Percentage who have received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing and isolation requirements): 85%
• Percentage who have returned at least one result: 79%

Tests

• Number of tests total (last 24 hours): 19,027
• Tests rolling average (last 7 days): 18,265
• Auckland tests total (last 24 hours): 11,066

Wastewater

• No unexpected detections in most recent results.

NZ COVID Tracer

• Poster scans in 24 hours to midday yesterday: 2,577,933
• Manual diary entries in 24 hours to midday: 28,983

My Vaccine Pass

• My vaccine passes issued total: 4,515,094
• My vaccine passes issued (last 24 hours): 26,633