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<div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="white-space:normal"><p dir="auto">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.</p>
<p dir="auto">—Barry</p>
<p dir="auto">On 21 Mar 2020, at 13:09, Steven A Smith wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">How, by the way, is NZ doing with this themselves? I always think of<br>
them as a sort of safe-haven being as relatively isolated as they are<br>
yet with an anglophone first-world embedding.<br>
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- Steve</p>
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