9 Dec 2021

Contact tracing system missed most targets in Delta outbreak

From Midday Report, 12:14 pm on 9 December 2021

The contact-tracing system missed most of its targets over the first two months of the Delta outbreak.

That's according to an interim report released by the Ministry of Health.

Ideally, at least 80 percent of the closest contacts of infected people should go into isolation within four days of being exposed to Covid; but in reality, only 50 percent did.

University of Otago epidemiologist professor Michael Baker joins Max Towle.