Covid 19 coronavirus: Tracer app use not high enough if there were to be an outbreak
12 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
5 minutes to read
A timeline of Coronavirus in 2020. Graphic / Phil Welch / Nathan Meek
New Zealanders lacklustre Covid-19 tracer app use means contact tracers would not be able to do their job properly if an outbreak occurred today. The number of daily scans - QR code and manual entries - has fallen since its peak of 2.5 million in September to around 500,000 in recent weeks.
Read More
Ministry of Health data shows there were only 407,301 scans in the 24 hours from 1pm on Saturday, January 9 - the most recent day available.