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New Zealand's 100 Day Streak being Covid free just ended
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A select few people entering the country being quarantined and not in the general public means it was essentially not a thing.
13 new cases today. All linked to the same family.
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www.nzherald.co.nz
Return of a Covid cluster - NZ to learn lockdown fate at 5.30pm Friday
Today's results reveal the first trends from mass testing.
www.nzherald.co.nz
That's the kiwi spirit mate.
So...fuck the Kiwis who happened to be on a working holiday overseas when everything went down? Screw those who had to leave for medical treatment not available in NZ? And just generally fuck anyone who left the country at any time for any reason, they're no longer considered New Zealanders in your eyes? There are still thousands stuck overseas still trying to get home for months due to the heavily limited flights in (and out).
Mate, as many have already clearly explained in this thread, it's far far from simple as you say to just close the border completely, with no exceptions, without causing chaos or taking away legals rights of Kiwis.
Under the Level 3 restrictions I think so. But definitely not under Level 2.
They're much better than countries like USA, Brazil & the UK in which each of those dumbfuck leaders aren't taking it seriously.
Yup. I rest my case.
Nope, they weren't mandatory till today. Good call. Also extending lockdown yo next sunday is a good call. I was hoping for this wednesday, but we're still getting between 1 and 10 cases per day from a small region. Once its closer to the low single digits for a few days I'd feel better about it.
Why are the lockdown extensions so short/specific? It should follow the data. I feel that NZ has the benefit of hindsight here as they seem to be experiencing what a lot of places went through months ago. Getting out of lockdown early is what screwed over a lot of of places. And masks should be mandatory everywhere. At least in the affected region and surrounding areas.
The numbers are small, but growth will still be exponential. You're not going to stop this with mere bandaids.
The reason why is because we have proper contact tracing and testing, we have almost all close contacts of the current cases self isolating, and its still just the one cluster. All the cases are in Auckland. Also, we arent coming out of lockdown completely next week, we are going from level 3 to level 2. Which is still going to be no groups of more than 10
You can do a great job contact tracing, but it will still not be effective enough. This virus is nasty. People can be asymptomatic or not show symptoms for weeks. I feel like the human race needs to be more humble towards COVID-19 and stop thinking it has outsmarted or contained it.
When Auckland moves to level 2, it's gathering limit is being specifically limited to 10 with a couple of exceptions.
Oh good to know. They should call it 'level 2 Plus alpha' or something.
The Prime Minister mentioned that when announcing the extension. Auckland moving to Level 2 would have the additional gathering limit of 10 with the exception of funerals.
Well, hopefully it's not for long. It was fun getting back to the movies while it lasted.
Mask wearing under Level 2 was not mandatory before, however Buses are limited to a certain amount of people so that there is space between everyone. It was effectively to give time for people to go and buy masks, which many didn't have prior. Masks will be mandatory on public transport coming up.
I've seen a pretty good uptick in mask wearing on buses already and people are keeping themselves apart from each other, so mandatory masks will help more for sure.
I've seen a pretty good uptick in mask wearing on buses already and people are keeping themselves apart from each other, so mandatory masks will help more for sure.
I had to take two busses today. One had a passenger without a mask and the other had a driver without one :/
As long you had your mask, you should be fine even though there might be a very small chance
Funny, I hadn't even thought about myself, just the procedure not being met š