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CovidCard


In a May briefing to ministers, officials discussed the field testing of a Bluetooth-enabled card – designed to support manual contact tracing – at Nelson Hospital and in Waikato. In July the Ministry of Health told the government uncertainty around the technology meant using it to improve contact tracing was difficult. They recommended more field …

Rotorua has been selected by the Government for a community-wide trial of ‘CovidCard’ technology which detects and records close contacts using Bluetooth.  Since March, Trade Me founder Sam Morgan has been working as part of a team to test the ability of ‘CovidCard’ technology, a low-energy device about the size of a credit card.  The …