Covid lockdown months not included in tomorrow's child poverty statistics 22 Feb, 2021 04:23 AM 3 minutes to read The Child Poverty report does not take into account lockdown months, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said. Photo / George Heard The Child Poverty report does not take into account lockdown months, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said. Photo / George Heard New Zealand's Covid-19 forced lockdown and the subsequent weeks will not be included in tomorrow's all-important Child Poverty report, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern this afternoon confirmed. Instead, the annual measure will only take into account the nine months to March 2020, and has surveyed 15,000 families rather than 20,000 as in previous years.