The owner of a Greenhithe pub visited by a person who tested positive for COVID-19 is urging people to scan QR codes diligently.
Kevin McVicar is in managed isolation after the Ministry of Health said a patron who visited The Malt tavern on October 16 had tested positive for the virus.
While seven other staff self-isolate at home, McVicar is now at Jet Park after being told he posed a potential risk to his 73-year-old mother, who he lives with.
McVicar says there's an assumption among Kiwis that we're all "going to be alright", and thinks that mentality isn't going to change.
"You just don't think about it, you don't think it's going to affect you until it does," McVicar says.
"You either [scan] or you don't, and it needs to be done."
No close contacts who visited the pub at the same time as the positive case have since tested positive - McVicar and his mother returning negative tests on Thursday and Friday.
McVicar says it would be "horrible" if someone related to the Malt Tavern tested positive.
"Be safe, scan," was his message to Kiwis.
While he says it's "no big drama" staying in hotel quarantine, McVicar says the Ministry of Health "didn't seem to know what was going on".
Two days after being told to self-isolate at home, an Auckland Regional Public Health nurse told McVicar to move to a managed isolation facility.
"There were mixed messages. They said it's because I can't properly isolate myself from my mother while I'm at home, which is true - but this should have been clear at the start," McVicar told NZME.
There were no new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing New Zealand's active case total to 70.
