A Contact Tracing Assurance Committee has been set-up to strengthen oversight on what the Health Minister David Clark is describing as a crucial part of the Covid-19 response.
Strategies to ease physical distancing and end lockdowns all share one critical requirement: the ability to test widely for infection and then trace contacts, in order to isolate people who were exposed and break the chains of infection.
Sir Brian Roche will chair the committee, joined by Dr Philip Hill, Warren Moetara, Dr Marion Poore and Liz Read.
Clark says they will advise him on how the Ministry is making further improvements to the tracing system and on any national changes required.
He speaks to Corin Dann.
