Top Stories for Monday 23 August 2021

New Zealand now has 72 community cases of COVID-19 and the number of close contacts is closing in on 10-thousand, Auckland health authorities are urgently recruiting more contact tracers as the system hits capacity just five days into the delta outbreak, we'll speak this morning to Associate Health Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall for the latest information and we speak to the Privacy Commissioner about a possible public backlash to new compulsory scanning regulations.