Contact tracing project
Partnering with the Ministry of Health

In amongst the global chaos, the approaching Coronavirus and its potentially devastating impact, the Ministry of Health implemented a National Close Contact Service (NCCS) in Wellington, to trace people who had connected with someone testing positive for the virus. This was a government priority.

This was a highly uncertain situation; hard data was not available; the country went into Alert Level 4 lockdown and ‘unprecedented’ became the word of the hour. The Wellington contact tracing project was set up under urgency by a highly committed team who tirelessly worked on ‘building the plane and building the runway’, with the population of New Zealand tuning in daily.