New Zealand, (click here) a country of about 4.8 million, has now gone 100 days without a single locally transmitted case of COVID-19, according to news reports.
The last COVID-19 case acquired locally from an unknown source was reported on May 1, BBC News Reported around the time that lockdown measures began to ease. In late March, the South Pacific island implemented one of the strictest lockdowns in the world, "a lockdown so severe that even retrieving a lost cricket ball from a neighbor's yard was banned," The New York Times reported.
To date, New Zealand has recorded a total of 1,569 cases and 22 related deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins virus dashboard. Just 21 cases are considered active, and those people are isolating, CNN Reported...
August 10, 2020
By Julia Hollingsworth
..."We have seen overseas (click here) how quickly the virus can reemerge and spread in places where it was previously under control," Director-General of Health Dr. Ashley Bloomfield said Sunday.
"We need to be prepared to quickly stamp out any future cases in New Zealand. Don't let the team down -- none of us can afford to do that."...
