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Level 4 lockdown extended to 11:59pm Tuesday, after which time all of New Zealand south of Auckland will move to Level 3  

Level 4 lockdown extended to 11:59pm Tuesday, after which time all of New Zealand south of Auckland will move to Level 3  

Level 4 lockdown will be extended until 11:59pm on Tuesday, after which time all of New Zealand south of Auckland will move to Level 3.

Cabinet will on Monday decide how long Auckland and Northland will remain at Level 4.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said it was "likely" Auckland could remain at Level 4 for two more weeks, from Tuesday. 

Cabinet will on September 6 review the alert level setting for the rest of New Zealand.

Ardern said Level 4 is being extended, because this will mean we have a full 14-day cycle in complete lockdown.

There are still around 300 contacts of infected people in the South Island, and there are contacts in Wellington that are yet to be tested. Tests won’t pick up a positive case if they’re done too soon after exposure.

Ardern also noted Covid-19 was detected in Christchurch via wastewater testing. While this is likely to reflect the fact there are people with Covid-19 in managed isolation, she said further tests needed to be done to be safe.

On the upside, Ardern said we may be seeing the beginning of a plateau of cases.

She also noted new cases were largely household contacts. But she said once Covid-19 gets into a household, it's spreading throughout that household. 

Latest case details

New cases in the community: 70 - all in Auckland

Total cases in the community: 347, including 333 in Auckland and 14 in Wellington

Wastewater testing: Covid-19 detected in wastewater in Auckland, Wellington, Warkworth and Christchurch. Ministry of Health says Christchurch traces could be connected to managed isolation

Links between cases: 278 epidemiologically linked, 69 unlinked

Number of locations of interest: 504 - these will be updated here every 2 hours

Number of contacts identified: 29,851

Portion of contacts tested: 76%. Ministry of Health says most of the 7164 untested contacts aren't due to have a test yet. Testing too soon after exposure can prevent positive results showing up

Vaccination rate: 26% of eligible population fully vaccinated; 48% have received one dose

Vaccinations done on Thursday: 90,757

Community cases in hospital: 19 - all stable, 1 in ICU

Testing: 37,020 tests processed on Thursday. Nearly 10% of people who live in Auckland have been tested since the start of this outbreak

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Map showing Auckland boundary

Press release from the Ministry of Health

There are 70 new cases of COVID-19 in the New Zealand community today; all are in Auckland. This brings the total number of cases in the community outbreak to 347.

The total number of community cases in Auckland is now 333 and in Wellington it is 14.  

All of the cases have or are being transferred safely to a quarantine facility, under strict infection prevention and control procedures, including the use of full PPE.

There are 278 cases that have been clearly epidemiologically-linked to another case or sub-cluster, and a further 69 for which links are yet to be fully established.

There are currently six epidemiologically-linked subclusters identified within this outbreak. The two largest clusters are the Birkdale Social Network cluster associated with Case A (45 confirmed cases), and the Mangere church cluster (146 confirmed cases). The remaining clusters have fewer than 20 people associated with them.

Of these 70 new cases, 44 are Pacific peoples, 11 are Asian, six are European, six are Māori, and the ethnicity of three is unknown.

Nineteen of the current community cases are in a stable condition in hospital; one of these cases is in a stable condition in ICU. Of those in hospital, two are in North Shore Hospital, eight are in Middlemore Hospital, and nine are in Auckland City Hospital.

There are no new cases identified at the border in recent returnees to report today.

The total number of active cases being managed in New Zealand is currently 384.

Since 1 January 2021, there have been 124 historical cases, out of a total of 1,123 cases.

Our total number of confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic is 2,941.

Amberlea Home and Hospital Care Facility (Algie’s Bay)

Amberlea has been listed as an exposure site following confirmation that a positive case in Warkworth worked in the facility’s dementia ward.

Public health officials understand the staff member worked two shifts while unknowingly infectious. They are fully vaccinated and adhered to strict Infection, Prevention and Control protocol, including wearing face coverings and other PPE.

A mobile testing unit will be operating at Amberlea today and all residents and staff are being asked to have a test.

Hospital capacity

Hospitals across the country are safely managing anyone needing acute hospital care.

Overall, health system capacity is good across the motu. Hospital occupancy is around 75%, while ICU occupancy is around 58%.

It is important that anyone who needs care, for any reason, seeks it – do not delay.

All health services are operating safely under Alert Level 4 protocols.

Testing

Testing nationwide remains crucial to us having more confidence in our assessment of the spread of COVID-19.

Our advice remains the same - if you were at a location of interest, at the specified times, or have cold and flu symptoms, please call Healthline on 0800 358 5453 for advice on testing.

By calling Healthline, people who have been at locations of interest at relevant times are logged into the contact tracing system. This means their swab can be tracked and processed faster by the laboratories.

Yesterday, 37,020 tests were processed across New Zealand.

Centres in Auckland had another busy day yesterday with almost 18,000 swabs taken across Tâmaki Makaurau, with around 7,000 at community testing centres and around 11,000 at general practice and urgent care clinics.

There are 23 community testing centres available for testing across Auckland today, including six regular community testing centres, 12 pop-up sites, and five invitation-only sites for high-risk groups and to prioritise essential health care workers.

In Wellington, almost 3,000 tests were processed yesterday. There are seven community testing centres operating across the region today, and around 32 GPs are providing testing.

All DHBs are ensuring there is good access to testing across the regions.

For up-to-date information on all testing locations, please visit the Healthpoint website.

The total number of COVID-19 tests processed by laboratories to date is 2,891,738.

The seven-day rolling average is 39,929.

Wastewater

Wastewater samples from 108 locations have now either been analysed or are currently in the laboratory being analysed. There are 78 locations in the North Island and 30 locations in South Island. These cover an estimated 3.8 million people, and over 90 percent of the New Zealand population connected to reticulated wastewater systems.

There are no unexpected detections to report. The most recent analysis shows there continues to be positive results in Warkworth, Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, as previously reported.

COVID-19 was detected in a sample collected on Tuesday from Warkworth but nearby areas including Snells/Algies continue to be negative. In the Wellington region, the virus continues to only be detected in samples collected from Moa Point and likely reflects known cases shedding the virus.

A further sample collected from Christchurch collected on Wednesday was processed today and has returned a positive result. As reported yesterday, this result is consistent with virus shedding from those cases in managed isolation and quarantine facilities in Christchurch, however, further testing is underway from a range of sites in Christchurch.

Contact tracing

As of 8am today, 29,851 individual contacts have been identified and around 76% of these have had a test, most others are not yet due a test.

Locations of interest

Additional locations of interest continue to be identified.

Please remember to regularly check the Ministry’s website. Locations are being updated automatically on a two-hourly basis between 8am and 8pm. Any significant or urgent locations of interest will be published as required.

It is important to note that locations of interest are removed from the website after 18 days, this is because after this time, they no longer pose a public health risk. This is because the risk to the community is further reduced based on the adherence to Alert Level 4 requirements.

Anyone who was at a location of interest at the specified time, is asked to self-isolate and call Healthline on 0800 358 5453 for advice on testing.

COVID-19 vaccine update  

Yesterday 90,757 vaccines were administered. Of these, 65,541 were first doses and 25,216 were second doses. This is the biggest daily total to date.

More than 3.11 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to date.  

Of these, 2 million are first doses and more than 1.1 million are second doses.

More than 181,000 Māori have received their first vaccination. Of these, more than 100,000 have also had their second vaccinations.

More than 117,000 doses have been administered to Pacific peoples. Of these, more than 67,000 have also received their second doses.

NZ COVID Tracer

NZ COVID Tracer now has 3,087,114 registered users.

Poster scans have reached 330,918,492 and users have created 14,446,464 manual diary entries.

There have been 751,087 scans in the 24 hours to midday yesterday.

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I think North Island will remain in lockdown unless they build a wall around Auckland.

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Hmmm, I like the way you think but wouldn't a concrete dome be better? Keep the germs (and smell) in. No problem with sunlight in the dome either as there's so much sunlight shining out of a$seholes in that place.... I mean, I ask you!

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what a dick comment!

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The number of daily cases keeps going up!
This is going to be a looooooong lockdown for Auckland (and Wellington).
I wonder if they will keep the rest of the country locked up as well?

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It's flattening. Low 60s, then high 60s, now 70. The rate of increase is declining and all going well the numbers should start dropping from here. So even if tomorrow shows 68 cases we would be going in the right direction.

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hmmm sustained moderation?

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Yep, looks very promising - certainly not growing exponentially. Just got to keep at it for another few weeks and it'll be snuffed out.

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The question, in my mind, is if they can get good enough lockdown compliance for long enough.

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It's like the old marshmallow test. Tolerate a proper level 4 now for the promise of level 1/2 in the near future, or have a sloppy level 4/3 for several months until we vaccinate out of the problem.

I hope we can handle some collective delayed gratification.

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that should be exactly right -- but dont be too sure taht even at 75%+ vaccination rates taht they will be prepared to stop lock downs -- as the current indications are taht there will be higher levels of non vaccination in our more vulnerable communities -- and so more risk of death and hopitalisation in that group - and ultimately its the overrunning of our hospital system taht is the key decision factor -- if the health system can cope - we can open - if not we cant regardless of the %

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By it'll I assume you mean small business will be snuffed out ?

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This is not an exact science, we might as well see 30 cases tomorrow and 100 the day after, people go get tested whenever they feel sick. Check the graphs of cases of previous lockdowns, daily data is too noisy, moving averages need to be used and so far, there's no consistent evidence we are pushing the curve although it is fair to say it could look much worse if it wasn't because of all hard work that's being done.

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These are likely to be all household contacts and so the numbers are going to be likely reliable

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Based on these figures, the good news is that the areas are containing the virus (i.e. in Auckland, in Wellington).

I think given these facts, we can consider going down a level or 2 for those areas not impacted and just put boundaries in place so they stay that way.

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No chance of going straight to L2. I think the best that those in the SI can hope for is a week of L3 and then L2.

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So the government made the right decision then 7jai?

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You mean the vaccination stroll out?

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Not anymore. 90k yesterday alone.

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decision make needs to thing futher!

1. do we need third shot or more?
2. how can we secure more vaccine?
3. the current tracer app needs an update to deal with delta and other strain. there must be an automatic waring system to each people regarding whether one has been a risk of infection and need to get test as soon as possible.
4. how and to which countries should NZ open to?

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Today, you are really making sense. Keep it up please.

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I must admit your neutrality today.

I am a very sensible person even when I praise the political party that you think should be condemned by everyone. You cannot see it now but let's reassess in the next decade.

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I Agree, It would be pretty hard as not to praise the aforementioned political party, when looking up to a barrel of a gun pointed at your head :)

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Not quite right.I tend to condemn every political party.That arises mostly because I am hard pressed to find any politician I could praise. Thanks for the recognition though. Purely as a matter of interest what number am I on your file?

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I was driving down one of the main avenues here in Christchurch - the council love their traffic lights here. While stopped a man walked past my car.. THOUGHT EXPERIMENT:

If everybody had Bluetooth-Enabled-Covid-Tracing on their phones AND that man had Covid.. well I'd be considered a contact [I'd be in bluetooth range], all the cars around me would be considered contacts and fall like dominions.. as they drive to the 4 corners of Middle Earth?

Just a thought.. I don't know the conditional logic the app uses server-side.

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I think they had similar things going on overseas (could have been UK?) where housing density is higher and people were being pinged because they lived next door to a case.

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It does lend credence to lockdowns being an effective strategy if you can bring the public along. Whatever novelty these lock-downs many have had has worn off.

This round will be harsher on people; less financial support and less consensus. I think Christchurch should be at Level-3. From memory; going by the governments own level-literature, shouldn't Christchurch really be at Level-1?

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Or even chch at level 3 for a few days rest of south back at 2?

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They must have got the light sequences wrong. Usual practice would be to still have you in the avenue.

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https://merics.org/en/short-analysis/covid-19-contact-tracing-apps-why-…

China was the first country to try a CTA as a means of curbing the spread of the virus. In February 2020, it rolled out its “health code” app nationwide as a means of controlling people’s movements. Developed by internet giants Alibaba and Tencent, users access the app through Alipay or WeChat and input their phone number, full name and ID number.

After registration, the health code used self-reported travel histories or any suspect symptoms and automatically collected travel and medical data to assign users a red, yellow or green QR code. Whereas a green code gave users unhindered access to public spaces, a yellow code indicated that the person might have come into contact with a person with Covid-19 infection and therefore has to be confined to their homes or an isolation facility. A red code was assigned to users infected with the virus.

As public spaces like shopping malls can only be accessed with a green QR code, installation of the health code app became to all intents and purposes mandatory in China, resulting in broad adoption of the app among Chinese citizens. The app received criticism, however, for collecting a wide range of information on central servers including personal information, location, recent contacts, health status and travel history.

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What I haven't seen, perhaps I missed it, but what are the numbers of test being analysed each day?
Are they increasing/decreasing/vary/consistent?
Tests per day is of interest, but rather meaningless in the context of what numbers are analysed verse what are then reported cases.
Anyone?

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MoH is reporting them. 37k today I think.

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Good news! We are 105th in the list of countries who are 'most vaccinated '. Source NZ Herald - Vaccine Tracker.
Merry Christmas Everyone if I don't see anyone before then!
Stuart

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Yip, it is good news. 91k vaccines administered yesterday.

Rolling 7 day average is 67k per day. At that rate we will have 80% of the full population with 1st dose received by 30 September.

We're actually in danger of burning through our vaccine supply again and running into shortages, since the last delivery was for 350,000 doses which is good for 7 days at 50k per day.

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They just need to remember that there is a two week or so lag before the vaccine kicks in and then it runs on reduced effectiveness until the second dose is administered. In other words the first jab does not exactly make you bulletproof.

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Yes but it’s a hell of a lot better than no vaccine

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Yep let’s hope all the unenlightened & hesitant can see that too.

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The vaccination dribble out is the reason we are in this mess.

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We vaccinated ~91k people yesterday. That's more per capita than the UK or US managed at the peak of their vaccination rollout.

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There's no denying though that it would have been better to have that peak rate in April rather than now. Yes they didn't have the supply but that is only partly out of their control.

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So it is and as good as that is it would assist mightily too if the government could advise at what point does the level, percentage of those vaccinated change things and what those changes will be.

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Why compare yourself with losers if you want to be objective? What about Singapore - similar population size:

8.78M - Doses given
4.35M - Fully vaccinated
76.2% - % of population fully vaccinated

VS us:

2.93M - Doses given
1.05M - Fully vaccinated
21.4% - % of population fully vaccinated

Got their first doses only a few weeks prior to NZ. Fun fact - that's being unreported by our media - Singapore Airlines is the company that delivers us vaccines. Not sure if that's still the case today, please comment if you're aware of the situation.

Source: https://www.singaporeair.com/en_UK/nz/travel-info/local/nz/covid-19-vac…

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combined with there complete mess in MIQ...feel sorry for AKL as this is second time it has happened up there. Bloomfield should resign over this.

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What would that achieve?

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Sorry what is your reference point you are comparing too to show our MIQ has been a shambles? Australia? Genuinely interested in which countries you are referring too as a model we should be following?

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Lord D - no, it most emphatically is not.

https://www.fishpond.co.nz/Books/Coming-Plague-Garrett-Laurie/978014025…

note the publication date.

There are too many humans, too close, travelling too far/fast/often. It's just stats - leave the emotion/bias out of it. It was bound to happen, and will again - this isn't the Big One.

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"Amberlea Home and Hospital Care Facility in Warkworth is a new location of interest. The fully vaccinated staff member worked two shifts while unknowingly infectious."

Next step on the logic mobile .... mandate vaccination status for employment

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that is already starting to happen everywhere, it is going to be hard going for an anti vaxers in the future

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Harder maybe, but all the conspiracy wackos will have a field day at the erosion of civil liberties and individual rights.

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It won't happen in government unless they actually don't want any workers. People are too valuable to lose in most places and if anyone showed resistance they would buckle.

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If fully vaccinated people can catch covid and be infectious - as per this example - what rationale can there be for requiring vaccine as a condition of employment?

The only argument I can somewhat understand is the one that there are people who cannot get vaccinated due to other medical conditions, allergic reaction history etc.

However, it now seems clear that a vaccinated colleague could still transmit the virus to them. Ok there is presumably a reduced risk, but it is not eliminated fully. Is it enough to warrant mandatory vaccination? In the event that Covid is allowed to circulate through the community (once we reach sufficient vaccine uptake) how could an employee prove they caught it at work and then hold the employer responsible? It's not like if my boss asks me to climb a dodgy ladder and I fall off ... that is cut and dry. This is so much more complex and opaque.

Also if an employer mandates vaccination, could an employee hold them responsible for any potential side effects (if they only took the vaccine to keep that job, and wouldn't have taken it otherwise)?

How many employers who are keen to require vaccination have in the past applied pressure (wittingly or unwittingly) on staff to come in to work when feeling under the weather? Will they change their tune for the health of their employees, or will they be back to their old tricks as soon as there is enough vaccination uptake?

More questions than answers IMO.

Disclosure: Not yet vaccinated, haven't been called up yet due to age. Will get mine when I'm offered it.

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A preprint study is showing the vaccinated with 250x viral load levels in their nostrils, and with less severe symptoms can be infectious without knowing it. Which explains the Delta freight train concurrent with vaccination programs.

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if you check the link -- https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/pages/s70-revisedv2-2…

there are already differences in isolation periods for healthcare workers who are fully vaccinated under section 70 - was updated last week and i have seen several DHB documents to that effect -- It wont be mandated - to many people at the lower and pointy ended sector that are strong anti vaccers - but it will be incentivised --maybe the leave payment will only be for one week not two and if you are not vaccinated tough you just get one weeks support not two - they will have to find a way

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I think the government knows that this is the last level 4 lockdown they're likely to get away with, politically speaking. They need to get vaccination numbers up ASAP as raison d'état for throwing the borders open, and retiring the alert level system in favour of a more permanent public health strategy for dealing with an endemic COVID-19. Unfortunately this means they're more interested in playing a numbers game than focusing efforts where they're most needed, namely our high-risk population and front-line workers, who are going to require booster shots very shortly in order to maintain immunity.

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Agreed.

By the time I am offered my vaccination and actually able to book it in (mid 20s so not been called up yet) we will probably be at the point where frontline workers, the elderly and immune-compromised need their booster dose, if these studies out of Israel, UK etc that show waning effectiveness after ~6 months are true.

Is it better to vaccinate the younger population first (who statistically are at much lower risk of serious illness or death) or better to go back and top-up the vulnerable or those with high exposure risk?

I'd be happy to give my place in the queue to someone who is more at risk than I am.

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Agreed. The government rightly gave priority to protecting the health system from being overwhelmed by covid. That priority must remain while that threat exists. But to balance the scales, if hospital care capacity can be increased, then that in turn reduces that threat pro rata more or less

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The release from the Ministry of Health lists their ethnicity before telling us how ill they are. But from their website "" Where people identify with more than one group, they are assigned in this order of priority: Māori, Pacific Peoples, Asian, and European/Other. So, if a person identifies as being Māori and New Zealand European, the person is counted as Māori."" Not sure what they do with people who refuse to identify with any group.

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Right time for all big companies start claiming wage subsidy....get ready grant a tidal wave of claims coming your way.

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So the entire South Island is still in lockdown because they couldn't figure out if the 3 cases in Christchurch MIQ were responsible for the positive wastewater result there? That's pretty sad.

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Yip.
They can't afford the political fallout.
Better to keep people locked up.

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If they're relying on waste water testing like this then they need to solve this problem. Some would say they should have solved it already. Yet another reason to quarantine Covid cases outside of a major population centre.

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How would you rule out other sources? I'm not really a sewage expert, so genuinely curious. I guess you could take hundreds of samples from different parts of the network - presumably this is what's happening over the weekend.

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I imagine there's a range of solutions, most of which would have required actual foresight.

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Care to share? I wonder how feasible it would be to isolate the sewage system of an entire hotel? You'd need one hell of a septic tank.

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Or just the ability to take a sample between the waste of the hotel and the public sewer system.

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Double

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well there is likely solutions and motions but unattractive field of study to be sure.

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They also check for meth and cocaine in wastewater - I wish she would share these stats, much more interesting.

Never fear, I have it on good authority they cant trace it back to a single bog, just by area.

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They've had the technology in the pipeline?

S--t, eh?

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no pdk, just going through the motions of it daresay.

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no its also because they cant be sure that all of the close contacts have been tested, that others who possibly were at a location of interests but have not checked and did not scan have also note been tested -- and in truth because they want a full 14 day cycle with no community cases - its not simply teh wastewater result - that is just one of the factors

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The risk now is that KFC workers etc who’ve been hiding away from testing and being sent to MIQ can go to work and spread the virus around the rest of the country. Are we going to see the yo-yo again? The odds of no cases outside of Auckland and Wellington despite the number of infected cases and superspreader events are extremely slim.

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Can someone tell the PM that Walkworth is in the Auckland district!. We dont need the cost of being left locked down at level 4 with no cases in Northland!

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Did you see the heat map of all the contacts who were exposed in Auckland but somehow ended up in Northland?? Northland had almost as solid coverage as Auckland did, oddly enough mostly around all the nice coastal spots. She can't say it because it would start a riot, but there's more people up here potentially with covid than you can shake a stick at. I'm wild about it. Next time we need 24 hour border controls in place BEFORE any announcement.

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500 vehicles were reported to have crossed into Northland around lockdown and the government is saying nothing.
The contacts that spread from opononi to keri Keri tells everything, the least they could is testing centres in all those towns pronto, not leaving Northland to sweat it out.

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I would say if next two days new cases remains around that number, then Auckland just need an extra week for level 4.Two more weeks lockdown is a overkill if news cases remains around 70 to 80 for the next two days. The government wont get away with it. I hope they see that.

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Get away with?

FFS - so much bias and emotion in some. They are doing their best, with the info they have. They're listening to the experts (unlike Boris or Trump) and they're making reasonable calls (disclaimer: I am no Labourite).

But we need to have a discussion re travel, frequency, obligations and costs. A vaccine-card is inevitable, as are commercial isolation facilities.

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"But we need to have a discussion re travel, frequency, obligations and costs. A vaccine-card is inevitable, as are commercial isolation facilities" totally agree on this one.

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Moving to L3 makes perfect sense to me, if the new delta strain mindset remains. Large gatherings are still not allowed and alongside random cafe and street interaction that must be the biggest risk of a difficult to contain outbreak.

I hope to see lots of masks at [outside] the fish and chips shop next Wednesday.

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She sounds like she so worried about our health..meanwhile they close most shops, including vege stores, butchers etc...except the liquor stores, keep them going no harm there in people trying drink their way out of lockdown. Just a joke

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My local vege shop and butcher are open, along with all the dairies. Im in Auckland.

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ours aren't .so hit and miss

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Just an 'anything to dig at my perceived others', perhaps?

:)

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I am just not seeing a health/economy balance in the dribble coming out of Wellington. Personally, my business is massively affected by this, we cant work remotely. If Auckland is a shut shop for 2 more weeks, I hope Jacinda sends me the 500k in sales I will have lost. Or at least calls my creditors asking them to be kind.

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"the 500k in sales I will have lost" - well if your product is well made and useful I am sure those that put it off will still buy when they can. If its just plastic shit that we don't need or a useless service while no loss and you can pocket the resurgence money.

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Are those... Free market principles I hear? How nostalgic

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DP

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I expect Jacinda to care about as much as she cares about the housing bubble she and her clown government doubled down on.

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Yeah well she's shown herself to care little for the small guy, whether it's FHBs or small business owners.
She's a leader for the elite!!!!

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Yep people like you deserve bloody good compensation. If that's the cost of lockdown then so be it.
Everyone promoting lockdowns needs to accept that.
Lots of double standards I feel- it's easy for people who have livelihoods unaffected by covid to say lockdowns are the best approach!

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The last lockdown didnt really hurt us, because we are really seasonal and that was at the end of summer, right now we have a ton of stock on the water and cashflow is really really critical.

A friend works for a big vegetable and fruit grower they have 52 workers coming in from Samoa. Obviously there is no covid in Samoa, but these people have to be in MIQ for 2 weeks, costing 500k in MIQ and wages. They would be staying on site in private housing if they went straight to the job - zero risk...
Im sure there are many more stories like this around the place.

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you right there house mouse, some not affected as if getting paid super and retired nothing changes for them, they more protected than ever. But giving out wage subsidy covers bugger all of the real costs for businesses. There fall back, here have a two year interest free loan, get knee deep in debt, no worries if you the government aghh we just tax our way out of it for next 100 years. There are a lot of companies that could operate safely at L4 or L3, more safely than MIQ.

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Level 3 isn't all that much different to level 4 but after two weeks in level 4 lockdown and still no cases showing in the South Island (assuming Tuesday arrives with none revealed), why does the South still only get a token reprieve? Even Wellington with several confirmed cases is going to get the same deal of liberation as the South Island so what exactly is the Government's criteria on lockdown levels?

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Totally agree. The wastewater test excuse is very flimsy when there are Covid-19 cases in MIQ in ChCh. If the situation was reversed and we had 300+ cases in ChCh and 14 cases in Nelson and none in the North Island, does anyone think that they would also lockdown Auckland and Wellington.

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Genuinely dirty on all the Aucklanders that have come north to their "second home" in the last week and a half. Just because you're rich doesn't mean you get to screw up life for northlanders. I suspect this may be how civil wars were started

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Totally agree. They need to make an example of these selfish pricks

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Perhaps it's time to make vaccine compulsory and carry your papers around with you at all times. Police should be allowed to ask for your papers at anytime. Your papers had better be in order.. Because its about saving lives from this dearly virus. Oh govt wanted marijuana last year ohh...

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Your comments are mostly conspiratorial with no factual basis. You're consistent in that.

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Yeah I guess my only validation will be if it comes true.

Vaccine passports and vaccine paper. People getting central bank accounts at the rbnz. Do you think that won't happen?

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Dcnbwz

How is this not going to happen?

https://youtu.be/dSyWoAd0gS8

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As a UK paper asked last week, "What has happened to the country of the All Blacks?"

A NZ doctors group, NZDSOS, wrote this to the Human Rights Commissioner two weeks ago: "Another critical deficiency in the information provided by the New Zealand Government is the withholding
of published peer-reviewed scientific evidence proving that SARS-CoV-2, thus COVID-19, has a very low
Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) of around 0.15%, which is similar to seasonal influenza of 0.1%."

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Jacinda is not "fit for purpose."

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