This appeared last week.
COVID Tracer App alert sent as virus re-emerges
Wednesday, 12 August 2020
eHealthNews.nz editor Rebecca McBeth
The alert function on the NZ COVID
Tracer App was used by government for the first time this morning, as
registrations reach almost one million.
The Ministry of Health released the app in May to allow people to track their
movements by scanning QR codes displayed at businesses and organisations. This
assists contract tracing if there is community transmission of Covid-19, which
has emerged earlier this week in Auckland.
The app alert went out to everyone who had signed into the Heritage Farm and
Skyline Gondola in Rotorua at the same time as members of a South Auckland
family who have since tested positive for Covid-19.
Uptake and use of the app had been lagging as New Zealand clocked up 100 days
without a case of community transmission, however director general of health
Ashley Bloomfield said at a media briefing on August 13 that the app now has
986,000 registered users, an increase of 338,000 over the previous 48 hours.
“I understand that there was some slowness for people in downloading the app
because of the volume of people who were doing so, and there were some caps in
place by the App Store and also Google Play: those have now been increased or
lifted so that shouldn't be a problem now,” he said.
More than 138,000 posters have been created, an increase of 51,000 in the last
48 hours, and the app has now recorded over 2.6 million poster scans and nearly
450,000 manual entries into people’s digital diaries. This is a huge increase
on the average numbers from last week.
Businesses nationwide now must display a government QR code for any visitors to
scan and they must comply before August 19 to avoid penalties.
More here:
https://www.hinz.org.nz/news/521456/COVID-Tracer-App-alert-sent-as-virus-re-emerges.htm
You can read more about the Tracer App here:
This link provides explanations of the tracing app and how QR codes at each location and extrance are being used by the app to record where an individual has been to allow even more rapid contact tracing and to allow alerts to be sent to an individual if a positive patient has been at the same location at about the same time.
Here is the app update of the 16th August:
NZ COVID Tracer
NZ COVID Tracer has now recorded 1,374,200 registered users, which is an increase of 71,000 in the previous 24 hours.
There have now been 193,505 QR codes generated – an increase of 7,025 in the past 24 hours.
The number of poster scans has now reached 5,293,568.
Here is the link:
https://www.health.govt.nz/news-media/media-releases/13-new-cases-covid-19-0
They are sure moving with great speed to track and trace!
Fascinating to watch from “across the ditch”
David.
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