[FRIAM] Papers on asymptomatic transmission and serology

[Barry MacKichan]

The case count in New Zealand is at least 100. The early cases were from 
travelers who had been in Italy and Iran. Then the word went out that 
citizens needed to come back to NZ, and some cases were among this 
counter-diaspora. Then a group from a cruise ship went on a tour through 
Te Papa, a national museum in Wellington and infected a number of others 
on the tour. As of this weekend, they were at threat level 2 (I don’t 
know precisely what that meant) and with clear community transmission, 
they upped it to level 3 which means ‘You have two days to get ready 
for total lockdown’. After two days, they will go to level 4 — total 
lockdown. The schools are closed, university students have been sent 
home and classes are canceled for four weeks. When they resume they will 
be online.

—Barry

On 21 Mar 2020, at 13:09, Steven A Smith wrote:

> How, by the way, is NZ doing with this themselves?  I always think of
> them as a sort of safe-haven being as relatively isolated as they are
> yet with an anglophone first-world embedding.
>
> - Steve
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