Locations of interest for people who may be contacts of COVID-19 cases in the community. Contacts who attended one of the locations in New Zealand during the relevant timeframes are asked to follow the directions below.
This page last updated: 4pm, 30 June 2021
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If you have recently returned from Australia, please continue to check the locations of interest for the state or territories you have been in and follow the advice shown here: Quarantine-free travel: Contact tracing locations of interest.
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See also on this website:
- Contact tracing for COVID-19.
- Quarantine-free travel: Contact tracing locations of interest: Locations of interest and travel guidance
Current locations of interest in New Zealand
There are no current locations of interest in New Zealand.
NZ COVID Tracer contact alerts
Receiving a yellow notification as a result of scanning a QR code through the NZ COVID Tracer app means you may have been exposed to COVID-19. A yellow contact alert will tell you if you are a Casual Contact or a Casual Plus Contact and what to do. If there is a “Send my details’ button, this enables you to send your contact details directly to Healthline, who will then call you back with advice about what to do.
If you receive a yellow QR notification via the app, it means you have used the app to scan into a location at around the same time as a confirmed or probable case of COVID-19, and that contact tracers consider there may have been a risk of exposure.
A contact alert is a simple way of making you aware of this risk. However, you might not have come near the person, and if you did, it might not have been for long enough to present a significant risk of exposure.
Contact tracers will get in touch with you directly if you are identified through the contact tracing process as having a higher risk of exposure to COVID-19, for example if you were seated in close proximity to the confirmed case (or are considered a Close Contact).
Find out about COVID-19 symptoms.
Information on how to contact Healthline if you are deaf or hard of hearing can be found at COVID-19: Information and advice for the deaf community.
Guidance for businesses
This document is to support businesses that have been identified as a location of interest following a visit by a confirmed (or probable) COVID-19 case.
- Guidance for businesses that are locations of interest following a visit by a confirmed (or probable) COVID-19 case (PDF, 186 KB)
- Guidance for businesses that are locations of interest following a visit by a confirmed (or probable) COVID-19 case (Word, 283 KB)
- Updated 18 February 2021.
There are financial support options available to businesses, including people who are self-employed, whose employees are awaiting a COVID-19 test or who are asked to self-isolate and are unable to work from home.
Please check the Work and Income website for up-to-date information about which option may be available.