Air Commodore Webb News Today

Today I am setting out our plan in the event we have a new case of community transmission of COVID-19 in New Zealand. Since we moved to level one, we have continued work to ensure we have an ongoing level of preparedness for resurgence in New Zealand  

Thanks to those concerning occurrences at the Pullman – along with other more recent circumstances – our news for the next few weeks is likely to be once again dominated by the term “Border Failure”. That is understandable – the recent circumstances via which first the South African strain and then the UK variant made their way out of containment deserve serious scrutiny. However, there’s another dimension to failures in our border policy. One which also mandates public attention an...