OIA Response H202201231.pdf

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22 March 2022

Sarah Matahiwi

By email:  [FYI request #18520 email]
Ref:
H202201231

Tēnā koe Sarah,

Response to your request for official information

Thank you for your request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) to the Ministry of
Health (the Ministry) on 10 February 2022. Please find a response to each part of your request
below.  I ask that the information be presented in the form that it had been made publicly available
until yesterday, 9 February 2022:

CONTACTS
- Number of active contacts being managed (total):
- Percentage who has received an outbound call from contact tracers (to confirm testing
and isolation requirements):
- Percentage who has returned at least one result: 68%

Information has been provided to you in the table below for the period of your request up until
the move into Phase 2 of the Omicron response on 15th February 2022. At Phases 2 and 3, the
National Investigation and Tracing Centre is no longer actively managing Close Contacts, with
the result that there is no meaningful data for the metrics requested from the start of Phase 2.
From 15th February, we discontinued making outbound calls to identified contacts affecting
Column 3: ‘Percentage of active contacts who received an outbound call from contact tracers’.
Furthermore, the self-registration of Rapid Antigen Test (RAT) results means we do not have an
accurate record for the ‘Percentage of active contacts who have returned at least one result’
(Column 4,).
  Date
Number of active  Percentage of active contacts  Percentage of active
contacts being
who received an outbound
contacts who
managed
call from contact tracers
returned at least one
result
08/02/2022  4,996
75%
67%
09/02/2022  5,529
75%
68%
10/02/2022  5,843
76%
69%
11/02/2022  6,586
70%
66%
12/02/2022  8,115
60%
61%
13/02/2022  9,547
59%
62%
14/02/2022  11,541
56%
59%

NZ COVID Tracer
- Poster scans in the 24 hours to midday yesterday
- Manual diary entries in the 24 hours to midday
This information is published daily at: www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-
data-and-statistics/covid-19-nz-covid-tracer-app-data.

MY VACCINE PASS
Total issued to date: 5,082,686
Total yesterday: 7,554

From 9 February 2022 until 7 March 2022, the Ministry has generated 277,320 my vaccine
passes (MVP). The daily generation of MVP from the 9 February to 7 March 2022 is listed in the
table below.

Date
Number of successful MVP generations
9/02/2022
15,584
10/02/2022
14,772
11/02/2022
14,839
12/02/2022
9,908
13/02/2022
8,061
14/02/2022
14,390
15/02/2022
15,103
16/02/2022
13,665
17/02/2022
12,843
18/02/2022
12,106
19/02/2022
8,403
20/02/2022
7,146
21/02/2022
11,799
22/02/2022
11,589
23/02/2022
11,528
24/02/2022
11,302
25/02/2022
10,605
26/02/2022
7,157
27/02/2022
6,090
28/02/2022
9,693
1/03/2022
9,485
2/03/2022
8,993
3/03/2022
8,423
4/03/2022
7,669
5/03/2022
5,262
6/03/2022
4,359
7/03/2022
6,546
Total
277,320

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WASTEWATER
- Any unexpected detections
The Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) does not provide information about
whether a wastewater result is expected, but they can provide information on when SARS-CoV-
2 has been detected in wastewater, please see the attached spreadsheet for information
regarding detections of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater for 8 February until 14 February. ESR also
publishes wastewater testing results, with a slight delay, at the following link:
www.esr.cri.nz/our-expertise/covid-19-response/wastewater-testing-results/.
The Ministry has information regarding COVID-19: Wastewater testing available at the following
link: www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-health-advice-public/covid-19-
wastewater-
testing#:~:text=Detecting%20SARS%2DCoV%2D2%20in%20wastewater&text=People%20who
%20have%20an%20active,for%20weeks%20after%20they%20recover.

I also request that you provide a full list of all detections for today and every subsequent
day until the day prior to this request being answered in full or the date on which you
resume making this information publicly available as part of your press releases,
whichever is the earlier.

In addition, for each day of the period specified above I request that you provide the
following for each region with an active case:
- The total number of new cases
- The town in which each new case resides
The Ministry only provides case data at a district health board (DHB) level which is available on
the website here: www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-
statistics/covid-19-current-cases.

- How many of the new cases have been linked to existing cases
- The number of people and number of cases who are being supported to isolate at home
For information regarding these questions please follow this link: www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-
novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-case-demographics#aug-2021. At the
bottom of this webpage is a subheading titled “Details of past cases”, please download the
excel spreadsheet titled “COVID-19 case details through 14 March 2022”. The Ministry only
provides case data at a DHB level.

I trust this fulfils your request. Under section 28(3) of the Act you have the right to ask the
Ombudsman to review any decisions made under this request. The Ombudsman may be
contacted by email at: [email address] or by calling 0800 802 602.

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Please note that this response, with your personal details removed, may be published on the
Ministry of Health website at: www.health.govt.nz/about-ministry/information-releases.

Nāku noa, nā

Kirsten Stephenson
Group Manager
COVID-19 Strategic Operations
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