New Zealand isn’t just flattening the curve. It’s squashing it.
4/7/20
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from The Washington Post,
4/7/20:
It has been less than two weeks since New Zealand imposed a coronavirus lockdown so strict that swimming at the beach and hunting in bushland were banned. They’re not essential activities, plus we have been told not to do anything that could divert emergency services’ resources.
“The signs are promising,” Ashley Bloomfield, New Zealand’s director general of health, said Tuesday.
But Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is adamant that New Zealand will complete four weeks of lockdown — two full 14-day incubation cycles — before letting up. She has, however, given the Easter Bunny special dispensation to work this weekend.
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