Other aspects of the border policy include:• Rapid deployment of Bluetooth applications to enhance contact-tracing while also exploring alternative technologies, such as a Covid Card. • A target for a waiting time for Covid testing of no longer than 60 minutes. • Widening the availability of Covid-19 testing nationwide, including easily deployable mobile testing stations in main centres. • Regular wastewater testing for Covid-19• Regular testing of aged-care workers and increasing opportunities for testing within aged-care facilities. NZ First leader Winston Peters also released border policy yesterday, including a single Crown agency and moving the country's managed quarantine and isolation facilities into army bases around the country.
Source: Otago Daily Times August 19, 2020 23:03 UTC