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Vaughan Couillault, Papatoetoe High School principal in the eye of the Covid storm
5 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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From New Zealand s first Covid-19 case on February 28 2020 to entering another alert level 3 lockdown on February 28 2021 - here s a timeline of the milestones and setbacks we ve all endured. Video / NZ Herald
From New Zealand s first Covid-19 case on February 28 2020 to entering another alert level 3 lockdown on February 28 2021 - here s a timeline of the milestones and setbacks we ve all endured. Video / NZ Herald
On Valentine s Day morning, Vaughan Couillault and his wife went for a walk on the beach. Vanessa and I are fortunate, says the Papatoetoe High School principal.
Covid 19 coronavirus: Three reasons NZ can t be Taiwan
4 Mar, 2021 06:00 AM
7 minutes to read
New Zealand trails Taiwan as a pandemic performer - but the comparison is far from fair. Photo / Getty Images
New Zealand trails Taiwan as a pandemic performer - but the comparison is far from fair. Photo / Getty Images
New Zealand s latest Covid-19 episode has prompted some to look to Taiwan, pointing out how it s largely managed the pandemic without lockdown. But can we really compare ourselves?
Jamie Morton looks at three big differences.
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Amid another Auckland outbreak, Act leader David Seymour and National s Chris Bishop have both pointed to Taiwan as an exemplar of Covid-19 management.
Watch: Chris Hipkins and Dr Ashley Bloomfield provide a COVID-19 update. Credits: Video - Newshub; Image - Getty.
After a short, sharp lockdown, Auckland is back under alert level 2 while the rest of New Zealand has dropped to alert level 1.
The moves comes despite three new community cases of COVID-19 being reported on Wednesday. All three, however, are connected to the original trio from the weekend and there is no evidence yet - either from community testing or wastewater testing - of any wider parallel transmission.
Of the 31 close contacts of the original cases, 30 have tested negative while the last is one of the three new positive cases. The test results of more than 360 casual-plus contacts - many from Papatoetoe High School - remain outstanding, but 1159 have tested negative. Contact tracing is now underway for the three new cases.