While the majority of countries around the world are worried, or are already experiencing, the emergence of coronavirus variants, New Zealand is living life normally thanks to a tracking app.

French expatriate in Wellington, Tina tells her daily life at the microphone of Europe 1.

While France "is on a ridge line to avoid re-containment", and part of the world worries about the spread of variants, there is a country for which the coronavirus is history, or almost: New Zealand.

"There we have almost forgotten the virus," confirms the microphone of Europe 1 Tina, French expatriate who lives in Wellington, the capital.

And for good reason, the islands have only counted 25 dead since the start of the pandemic and its inhabitants have returned to normal life after a five-week confinement in the spring. 

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"We went to see an All Blacks game in Wellington, we were 30,000 spectators"

"We always have it in the back of our heads because we are French and we talk about it with our families, but here it is as if the coronavirus no longer existed."

Shops, nightclubs and even stadiums, everything is open.

"We went to see an All Blacks game in Wellington, there were 30,000 spectators, it was incredible," Tina recalls.

"There are festivals, concerts, everyone can get together with their family, see their grandparents ... You can really do anything."

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Generalized tracing via an application

But New Zealand is not without protection against the coronavirus: Wellington has bet on the generalized tracing of Covid cases.

"We simply have an application that allows you to trace the places where you go. That way, as soon as there is contamination, you can trace the person's journey and contacts", explains this French expatriate.

An anti-Covid strategy that works, but which does not prevent the latter from having a strange feeling: "it's very weird because we are kind of the only ones in the world to have the right to really do whatever we want."