Use of the Covid Tracer App has spiked after it was announced there were new community cases in Auckland on Sunday. The number of QR code scans in the Covid Tracer App increased by more than half a million following news of new community cases in Auckland compared with the day before. CHECKPOINT/RNZ As we've been reporting, genome sequencing has confirmed the three latest Covid-19 cases in the Auckland community are the more infectious UK strain. How the cases – a mother, daughter and father – contracted Covid-19 is still a missing piece of the puzzle. As of Monday, there were 2,591,784 registered users of the Covid Tracer app.

Source: Stuff February 15, 2021 23:37 UTC