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Covid 19: Supermarkets support mandatory tracer app use proposal
17 Feb, 2021 01:57 AM
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The scanning of the Covid-19 tracer app may become mandatory for entry into businesses. Photo / Dean Purcell
The scanning of the Covid-19 tracer app may become mandatory for entry into businesses. Photo / Dean Purcell
Big businesses, including major supermarkets, are supportive of the potential move to make Covid-19 tracer app scanning mandatory.
This week Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said the Government wanted to do all it could to increase the usage of the Covid tracer app - including making scanning in compulsory.
Supermarkets such as Countdown, New World and Pak nSave signalled support for the move.
Covid-19 coronavirus: Snap survey reveals lacklustre tracer app use, expert slams efforts
15 Feb, 2021 09:00 PM
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There are three community Covid-19 cases in South Auckland - a mother, father and daughter from Papatoetoe. New Zealand is still at alert level 1.
There are three community Covid-19 cases in South Auckland - a mother, father and daughter from Papatoetoe. New Zealand is still at alert level 1.
A tracer app expert has slammed New Zealand for its lacklustre Covid-19 tracer efforts and says no one is immune from the potentially deadly virus. It comes after a snap Bay of Plenty Times survey