10 Dec 2020

Covid-19: Government Covid Tracer app gets Bluetooth

From Morning Report, 7:09 am on 10 December 2020

Get your smart phone out, Covid-19 contact tracing is about to get even easier, with a new Bluetooth upgrade optional from Thursday.

The upgrade will create an anonymised record of all the people users have been near.

But how do New Zealanders feel about the change, and just how many of us are still using the app at all?

Reporter Katie Doyle hit the streets of central Auckland to find out.