New Zealand is Crushing the Curve
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It's a small, wealthy, island nation with a natural border. It also sounds as though most of its people trust their government to do the right thing.
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My experience with kiwis is that they are very woke.
My sister married one so I spend some time with them.
They are really shocked about how non-woke some people are in this country.
My niece didn't want to visit us in this country a couple years ago because she was so afraid of Mr. Trump. Really she was afraid. The NZ media really hate him.
She did visit and somehow survived.
They love Mr. & Mrs. Obama.
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Coronavirus: New Zealand claims no community cases as lockdown eases
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No new case in the last 7 days.
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@Axtremus said in New Zealand is Crushing the Curve:
Only one “active” case left.
Probably an Australian.
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@George-K said in New Zealand is Crushing the Curve:
They basically shut the country off from the rest of the planet. Let's see how that works out in a couple of months.
Congrats to New Zealand, great job. But it is an island, would take a minor haircut with out tourism, has a pop of 4.8 million and only 1 large city of 1.4 million.
I think they should be applauded for great execution but what lessons learned would be relevant to the US?
For example should we wall off all immigration and travel?
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@Loki said in New Zealand is Crushing the Curve:
@George-K said in New Zealand is Crushing the Curve:
I think they should be applauded for great execution but what lessons learned would be relevant to the US?
Learn to play cricket and rugby rather than those crap sports you currently play. It would do the US a great deal of good to be humbled by the All Blacks, as the rest of us have being forced to endure.
I'm no expert, but...
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@Doctor-Phibes said in New Zealand is Crushing the Curve:
@Loki said in New Zealand is Crushing the Curve:
@George-K said in New Zealand is Crushing the Curve:
I think they should be applauded for great execution but what lessons learned would be relevant to the US?
Learn to play cricket and rugby rather than those crap sports you currently play. It would do the US a great deal of good to be humbled by the All Blacks, as the rest of us have being forced to endure.
See George’s post above yours.
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New Zealand says coronavirus 'eliminated,' lifts all domestic restrictions
New Zealand has eliminated domestic transmission of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Monday as she announced the lifting of all restrictions on business and social interactions within the archipelago nation.
Ardern announced during a press conference that New Zealand will be moving to its lowest COVID-19 alert level 1 as of midnight, lifting restrictions from businesses, social gatherings and the like that have been in place since the country went under strict lockdown 75 days ago.
"We are confident we have eliminated transmission of the virus in New Zealand for now, but elimination is not a point in time -- it is a sustained effort," she said.
Ardern thanked her "team of 5 million," as she has referred to the New Zealand citizenry during the pandemic, for their sacrifices over the past 11 weeks to reach this milestone.
With the announcement, New Zealand becomes one of the first countries to announce domestic elimination of the virus after going 17 days without detecting a new case within its borders and 12 days without a patient in hospital sickened with the deadly and infectious coronavirus that has killed more than 400,000 people worldwide since it emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan late last year.
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Good news indeed. But the PM is correct, the virus will probably be back.
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New Zealand announces two new coronavirus cases, breaking 24-day streak
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Once the envy of the world for its handling of the pandemic, New Zealand is now preparing its health system for an influx of Covid-19 patients as it pivots away from its elimination strategy.
Health Ministry modelling forecasts more than 5,000 cases per week in the Auckland and Northland regions next year, even assuming 90 per cent of the eligible population is vaccinated, Health Minister Andrew Little said on Thursday (Oct 14).
The figure does not include the rest of the country, where modelling is still being conducted.
"That's the worst-case scenario, but even at that level the vast bulk of people who would get infected would recover at home, or somewhere else in the community, because the majority will be vaccinated and won't suffer as badly as those who are unvaccinated," Mr Little said in an interview with Radio New Zealand.
New Zealand's health system has not yet been tested by surging Covid-19 cases, but ministers now concede a lockdown in largest city Auckland won't beat the infectious Delta strain and are preparing to ease restrictions as vaccination rates rise. Daily new case numbers are worsening, with 71 infections reported on Thursday, the most since early September.
For most of 2020 and much of this year, while many countries hunkered down as the virus tore through populations, New Zealanders were able to enjoy life largely unencumbered by restrictions after community transmission was successfully eliminated. Concerts were held, rugby games continued, bars and restaurants were open, children attended school and apart from the border being closed, life was seemingly normal.
But the Delta variant put paid to all that. In August, a single positive case resulted in the entire country being put into the strictest level of lockdown.
More than eight weeks later, Auckland is still locked down, but Delta continues to circulate. The virus has recently seeped out into the neighbouring regions of Northland and Waikato, resulting in further lockdowns.
With only around 60 per cent of the eligible population fully vaccinated, the government is rushing to inoculate as many people as possible before the outbreak spreads further. Mr Little's plan marks a move away from isolating all Covid-19 patients in government quarantine facilities or hospitals.
The minister said he's confident hospitals will have the capacity to cope with acute cases. "In terms of capacity to respond for additional patients, I'm confident that it is there and the planning is there to make sure we manage that carefully," he told a news conference.
Mr Little did not put a date on when the plan would be introduced, saying it depends on vaccination rates. New Zealand's slow vaccine roll-out has seen it slide down Bloomberg's Covid Resilience Ranking. For a long time, it held the top spot; now it is 38th, one place ahead of Bangladesh. Still, just 28 people have died of Covid so far.
