Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister of Health): Last week, I released the final report of the Contacting Tracing Assurance Committee. The report recognises the progress that's been made on New Zealand's COVID-19 contact tracing systems, and it concluded that New Zealand is now in an increasingly strong position, with an improved contact tracing regime. More than three weeks on from the Auckland outbreak, contact tracing continues to be effective. As of yesterday, teams have identified 2,743 close contacts, of which 2,676 have already been contacted and were isolating. That's a very high strike rate and, while the figures vary day to day, the teams are consistently performing at around or above the 80 percent benchmark of close contacts identified and contacted within 48 hours.