Covid tracer app complacency concerns

Published: Jan. 18, 2021, 7:21 p.m.

It's a two-second action which could prevent another lockdown, but most people aren't doing it. Use of the Covid-19 QR scanning app has dropped dramatically over the summer - the number of daily scans on the app is down to a fifth of its peak use. It's barely half a million scans across the country each day, and only 22 per cent of are using the new Bluetooth tracing feature. Hospitality New Zealand's Chief Executive Officer Julie White says cafes and bars shouldn't be lumped with forcing people to scan in. She speaks to Nita Blake-Persen.