16 Feb 2022

Covid-19: Contact tracing gets personal

From Morning Report, 8:17 am on 16 February 2022

People infected with Covid-19 are about to become their own contact tracers, with a new online system about to go live.

The country is now in phase two of its Omicron response and with daily case numbers set to hit four figures, it will no longer be possible for tracing teams to call every infected person.

But is a form that takes half an hour to fill out too much to ask?

Health correspondent Rowan Quinn reports.