Reti ShaneDr SHANE RETI (National—Whangarei): Thank you Mr Speaker. We've recently seen holes in the border and I believe our engagement has helped correct this. I want to add to the list of things that the leader has just identified as also being useful to add to the coronavirus response and I want to identify five other gaps that could be improved. I'm calling these five in five" because I believe these five proposals could also be completed in five days and in so doing would lift our collective bar. They're not big structural policy announcements like our border protection agency proposal which will have deep linkages across all of Government. These are more simple and seek to make it easier for New Zealanders to be tested and to follow the best current health advice. If we make things easy for people they're more likely to do it. These five proposals talk to how we can better understand and then target our resources to a more effective and efficient response. The first proposal is retest people for genomics within 24 hours of every positive case. The problem we're trying to solve here is that only 50 percent of samples have been genomically sequenced. Genomic testing is clearly important for identifying linkages and the heritage of the virus but we've only been able to sequence 50 percent. As the Minister said to me in written question 15645 the methodology used in some diagnostic laboratories means there is sometimes no residual sample to be sent to the Institute of Environmental Science and Research. Furthermore often samples are taken for the specific purpose of a positive or a negative coronavirus swab test but a different technique of sampling and processing may be required for genomic sequencing. I'm proposing that every positive test be resampled within 24 hours for the purposes of genomic sequencing. The second proposal is to require a negative coronavirus test turn-around time of 48 hours. The problem we're trying to solve here is the days that people are waiting for a negative test result—and we've all heard from people who have used up their sick leave over this period of time. We say the positive test needs to be reported in 24 hours. That's correct—that's the most important. But the negative has some consequences already and I want to suggest that we tighten that up with a measurable target of 80 percent of negative tests reported in 48 hours. The third proposal is to require a recording of people who have been declined tests to be recorded in the National Contact Tracing Solution. The Minister replied in written question 15638 that "the National Contact Tracing Solution does not record if a person was declined a test." This is important because we may have people who turn up for testing who've failed the case definition but subsequently test positive. What this would do is if we could record in the database those people we might be able to better fine-tune our case definition and more accurately pick them up. The fourth proposal is to make day three managed isolation testing compulsory. The problem we're clearly trying to resolve here is that the sooner we identify positive cases who have crossed our border the more effective and safe our response is. We have canvassed this regularly in the past week or so and we simply believe that day three testing in managed isolation should be compulsory. The fifth and final proposal is to use the COVID-19 app to generate a QR code that displays information at every user interaction with the coronavirus response. The problem we're trying to solve here is the time-consuming task of identifying people at each interaction with the coronavirus response. The COVID-19 app is a scanner of QR codes but imagine if it was also a displayer of QR codes—that is the app could also present information. As it is currently the app's a data pool. It pulls in location information of what is being scanned but imagine if it could also push data. A use case: a person has symptoms and needs to be tested. They have installed the COVID-19 app which has all their registration information including more recently National Health Index number and ethnicity. They go to the testing station and the app generates a QR code that has their registration information. Exactly like the Air New Zealand check-in the app generates a QR code which the person simply presents to the tester who scans it in with the same handheld scanners that we see at the New Zealand boarding positions. Can we imagine how much quicker the system could respond with what the user chooses to share? With the information in the system one could reasonably expect more efficient and effective contact tracing. In closing we're in the middle of a second spike and we need to move quickly. I would encourage the Government to consider what I've called these "five in five" proposals in the spirit that they're given as suggestions to raise our collective bar and protect us all. Thank you."