ANALYSIS: Aucklanders wake up this morning having lived through New Zealand’s shortest Covid-19 lockdown.
Just three days long and with alert level 3 restrictions allowing comforts like takeaway food and coffee, Auckland’s brief confinement ranks as one of the shortest and least onerous Covid lockdowns anywhere in the world.
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Around Parliament yesterday there was a belief that the Government’s approach, described by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as an “abundance of caution”, would cause the lockdown to be extended for another few days. This was certainly the case when a further two new cases were announced in a select committee at noon.
Just three days long and with alert level 3 restrictions allowing comforts like takeaway food and coffee, Auckland’s brief confinement ranks as one of the shortest and least onerous Covid lockdowns anywhere in the world.
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Around Parliament yesterday there was a belief that the Government’s approach, described by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as an “abundance of caution”, would cause the lockdown to be extended for another few days. This was certainly the case when a further two new cases were announced in a select committee at noon.
An Auckland school is copping criticism for saying it would prefer students not to wear face masks.
The college’s principal said students are free to wear them if it makes them feel safe, but fronting a room full of masked pupils would be difficult for teachers.
Epidemiologist Michael Baker says he disagrees with the advice from St Kentigern College and believes masks indoors should be a part of alert level two.
The college’s principal said students are free to wear them if it makes them feel safe, but fronting a room full of masked pupils would be difficult for teachers.
Epidemiologist Michael Baker says he disagrees with the advice from St Kentigern College and believes masks indoors should be a part of alert level two.
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