NZ COVID Tracer app uptake as a surrogate for digital equity

Is there any published data from COVID-19 Tracer uptake / usage on a regional basis? It would be very interesting to have some hard data (albeit surrogate) to document which areas have a solid problem with digital equity.

There is an interesting thread on the Digital Health Networks about using the NHS app uptake for this very thing:

https://discourse.digitalhealth.net/t/how-can-we-measure-a-patients-digital-exclusion/22716

The general app usage data is released on the MoH website:
https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-nz-covid-tracer-app-data

It could be that regional data isn’t even collected. Can you shed some light on this @jon_herries?

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