Covid 19 coronavirus: One final Papatoetoe High student to be found as 1000 Kmart shoppers deemed close contacts, told to isolate
24 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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There are no new community Covid-19 cases in New Zealand, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said.
There are no new community Covid-19 cases in New Zealand, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said.
Political reporter, NZ Herald@AmeliaJWade
After resorting to knocking on doors, contact tracers last night had just one Papatoetoe High School student left to track down and test for Covid-19.
The 10-day delay to reach the final handful of students has been labelled frustrating by Covid-19 Minister Chris Hipkins.
Print article Back in November, with COVID-19 cases surging and the state’s contact tracing corps overwhelmed, officials implored people testing positive to reach out on their own to the people they might have infected. But, now Alaska’s contact tracing effort is rebounding after several months of hiring and several weeks of decreased daily cases. At the moment, once contact tracers are notified of the new positive, they’ll reach out within the day, said
Tim Struna, who heads up the section of public health nursing for Alaska.
It takes on average statewide around three days between the time someone might pull into a drive-through testing site and get their nose swabbed to when a contact tracer calls them.
Letters: Covid tracing, vaccination, phonics, rates and John Kenel
13 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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A green tick registers on a mobile phone when the QR code is activated. Photo / Greg Bowker, File
A green tick registers on a mobile phone when the QR code is activated. Photo / Greg Bowker, File
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Making our own luck
New Zealand is an island nation but exists in a world awash with coronavirus. So far we have acted well and been lucky.
But with the new more virulent strains there is a significant probability that our defences will be breached. The virus works in mysterious ways.
Covid 19 coronavirus: Tracer app use not high enough if there were to be an outbreak
12 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM
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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.
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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.