Coronavirus ‘currently eliminated’ in New Zealand
The country has managed to avoid the worst-case scenario, the PM said.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that coronavirus has been “currently” eliminated in the country.
There were just five new Covid-19 cases reported on Monday with no widespread community transition.
Ardern said the country has so far managed to avoid the worst scenarios for an outbreak and would continue to hunt down the last few cases.
Easing of lockdown
As such, from midnight on Monday, certain businesses such as construction will be allowed to reopen, but social distancing rules will still apply.
“We are opening up the economy, but we’re not opening up people’s social lives,” Ms Ardern said at the daily government briefing.
Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said the low number of new cases in recent days “does give us confidence that we have achieved our goal of elimination”.
He warned that “elimination” did not mean there would be no new cases, “but it does mean we know where our cases are coming from”.
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