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The Covid Tracer application in action (file image).
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Auckland moved to alert level 3 and the rest of the country to alert level 2 after three community cases of Covid-19 were discovered.
Genomic sequencing revealed the cases were the UK variant of the virus and authorities were conducting contact tracing to try and determine the origin and extent of the latest outbreak.
Auckland paediatrician Teuila Percival urged Pasifika communities to apply all the lessons learned from past outbreaks. Staying home if you can stay home, sticking to your family bubble. We ll just hear every day with the government press conferences if there are more cases, Percival said.