New Zealand the “battle” to the pandemic of the COVID-19 By registering minimal daily infections, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said today, a few hours after taking the first steps towards lack of confidence.
“There are no major local infections in New Zealand. We have won the battle.”Ardern told reporters in Wellington, saying “optimistic that we will continue on this path of success” to achieve zero infections.
“To achieve this we must trace the last cases. It is like looking for a needle in the haystack”, the president warned, specifying that on May 11 it will be evaluated whether the restrictions are further lowered.
New Zealand, a country that has been internationally praised for its handling of the pandemic and one of the few on the planet that intends to eradicate it completely, has registered since Sunday a new case of COVID-19 in its island territory occupied by 5 million inhabitants. .
It currently has 1,122 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus, a figure that includes 19 deaths, while its transmission rate is below 0.4%, compared to the international average of 2.5%.
Starting at 11:59 p.m. On Monday (local time), the New Zealand government will lower alert level 4, which was in force for four weeks and which involved the closure of all activities and the quarantine of the population, to level 3.
Thus, the president asked her compatriots to keep social distancing measures during the partial resumption of certain commercial activities and school classes, since they suppose a greater contact between the settlers.
One million workers are expected to return to their workplaces as long as they have a pandemic control plan and physical distance measures between people are respected.
“We are opening the economy, but we are not taking back the social life of the people”, warned the prime minister, urging residents to stay within their “bubbles” and reduce contacts with third parties.
Laden worldwide, recognized for her empathy with victims of tragedies such as the supremacist Christchurch massacre and the eruption of the White Island volcano, did not rule out the possibility of resuming flights in a few weeks between her country and Australia and other destinations in the Pacific.
In two weeks, which is the time it takes for the virus to hatch, the New Zealand cabinet will reconvene to determine whether the restrictive measures can be further lowered.
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