Contact tracing

Contact tracing allows us to find people who may have been exposed to COVID-19. Find out how it works, what you need to do and the NZ COVID Tracer app.

How contact tracing works

Information on contact tracing, what you need to do to support contact tracing if you test positive, and receiving alerts from the NZ COVID Tracer app.

Household Contacts

You are a Household Contact if you live with, and spent at least 8 hours at a residence with, someone who has tested positive for COVID-19. Find out what you need to do.

Close Contacts

You are a Close Contact if you have had contact with a person with COVID-19 when they were infectious. Close Contacts do not need to self-isolate.

Critical workers

Find out when a Household Contact can return to work under the Close Contact Exemption Scheme or as a 'bubble of 1'.

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