The latest NZ Covid Tracer app data, logging national daily scan numbers up to 1pm yesterday, showed totals had fallen slightly from 1,540,671, over Sunday to Monday, to 1,469,320 between Tuesday and Wednesday. The last time alert levels moved down - when Auckland moved to alert level 2 on February 17, and the rest of New Zealand to alert level 1 - scan rates dropped from 1.76 million to 1.35 million within a few days. "So, we'll need to see another week of data before we can be confident that this level is holding." The Ministry of Health's figures could also suggest that, outside Auckland, fewer people were scanning amid a return to level 1. Some businesses have come up with their own incentives, including an Auckland steakhouse that was offering a small discount, and a Nelson cafe that was rewarding app users with free biscuits.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 11, 2021 03:56 UTC