A visit from a Sydney COVID-19 case was a wake-up call for Wellingtonians who are being urged to use their NZ COVID Tracer App.
On Wednesday the capital's residents were jolted out of complacency which Mayor Andy Foster says has become the norm - revealing "not enough" residents scan in.
The city moved to alert level 2 at 6pm on Wednesday and several locations of interest, visited by the case, have been released
One of the largest locations of interest, Te Papa, closed on Wednesday for a deep clean.
The visitor from Sydney was at the national museum for almost three hours on Saturday along with almost 2000 other people.
Another location of interest, Unity Books was open and bustling this morning.
Customers Newshub spoke to said they didn't know the store was a location of interest, nor were they alerted to it inside.
Unity Books is allowed to remain open and people are scanning in.
But there's an appeal from officials to do better than 'ok' - as scanning rates drop.
The country's biggest scanning day was in September last year when we hit the QR code button 2.5 million times, since then there's been a steady decline.
"Yesterday there were around 470,000 scans with the app," Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield revealed at Wednesday's press conference.
"We need and want that number to increase."
Another location of interest, Unichem on Lambton Quay which the COVID case spent an hour at was partially open for business today.
"As we still hold people's prescriptions we're still able to be handing out repeat prescriptions," staff member Georgia Lidstone told Newshub.
The case spent almost three hours at Te Papa on Saturday, along with up to 2500 other people.
Te Papa didn't know it was a location of interest until this morning - when a conference with 150 people was underway.
That Te Papa visit had far-reaching consequences.
Whitby Collegiate had its senior ball there on Saturday night and will close until Monday as a precaution.
And Paraparaumu Beach School's trip to Te Papa this morning, also canned.
That's just the start of the disruption - with the capital now in level 2.
Big events like the Wellington marathon and Drax Project gigs are off the cards this weekend
A city now scanning in and settling into life in level 2.
