From 11.59pm on Tuesday September 7, every person in Aotearoa New Zealand over the age of 12 will be required to keep a record of their whereabouts, either by scanning QR codes or signing paper registers
Mandatory record-keeping is part of an effort to strengthen contact tracing, in response to low numbers of people who were scanning or signing in before the current Covid-19 Delta outbreak and lockdown.
The onus to scan in is on business owners. Businesses for which the mandatory record-keeping rule applies will be given seven days after an alert level change to comply. In a practical sense, this means two main things:
Businesses will need to provide a pen-and-paper system for individuals to record their visit. These records need to be kept for 60 days, but then have to be disposed of. They shouldn’t be used for any other purpose, or shared with anyone other than a public health official.
Businesses must ensure customers are either scanning the QR code (which is mandatory to display) or otherwise recording their visit. Staff should also be scanning in too, so they can check whether the systems work properly.
A new simplified QR code poster design is available from the Ministry of Health.
