Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister of Health): A total of 617,200 users have registered for the COVID Tracer app. Official statistics record the number of scans per day, not the number of active users per day. Around 12,000 scans are being made each day on average. It's important to remember that the app is just one of the tools available to us. The work of the public health units and the National Close Contact Service remain the mainstays of our contact tracing system. The measure of the app's effectiveness will be how quickly it can be used to support contact tracing in the event that we have cases of COVID-19 in the community that need to be traced.