'Keep your guard up': Bloomfield says pandemic 'not even halfway' 'Keep your guard up': Bloomfield says pandemic 'not even halfway' Wed, 2 Jun 2021, 1:09PM Director general of health Ashley Bloomfield says all New Zealanders need to keep their guard up as we come into winter cold and flu season on the back of the Melbourne Covid-19 outbreak. As of last night, over 650,000 vaccines doses had been delivered - over 100,000 more than this time last week. Bloomfield and Associate Health Minister Ayesha Verrall gave an update of the vaccine rollout and said there were six new Covid-19 cases in MIQ- travellers from Brazil, Qatar and Malaysia.