When a single positive Covid test result was reported in Canberra, Australia, earlier this month, the city locked down for a week. New Zealand has gone one step further, with the reporting of one positive test resulting in the whole country being plunged into lockdown. BBC News has the story.
The case was detected in Auckland, which will be in lockdown for a week, while the rest of the country will be in lockdown for three days.
Authorities say they are working on the assumption that the new case was the Delta variant.
Just around 20% of its population has been fully vaccinated.
Coromandel, a coastal town where the infected person had visited, will be in lockdown for seven days too.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the toughest “Level Four” rules were required – closing schools, offices and all businesses with only essential services remaining operational.
“I want to assure New Zealand that we have planned for this eventuality. Going hard and early has worked for us before,” she said.
The patient is a 58 year-old man, who is believed to have been infectious since last Thursday.
There are at least 23 potential sites of transmission.
There was reportedly a rush at supermarkets in Auckland, as locals anticipated a snap lockdown.
Officials said there was a need for strong response because of the fear of the Delta variant, and because there was no clear link between the new case and the border or quarantine facilities.
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Wouldn’t it be better to lockdown Jacinda Ardern?
The NZ PM is clearly unhinged. What worries me are the number of politicians around tbe world interested in following her example. Nicola Sturgeon immediately springs to mind.
She always reminds me of that Edvard Munch painting ‘The Scream’.😱
I have NZ family who now can’t have a memorial service, just a cremation, for a much loved and popular family member, who died recently at a very good old age and with nothing to do with “covid”.
Utterly sickening.
Do you think it’s really because they’re sick of the LOTR tourists?
I’d love to knock that bitch’s teeth so far down her throat she’d have to shove a toothbrush up her arse to clean them.
Any cartoonist can handle that one?
An entirely reasonable wish.
Is this the same country which is famed for it’s fearless, world-conquering All Blacks?
One confirmed infection. Christ! If they find another then that’s a 100% increase. Doomsday scenario!! Ten cases, 1000%!! Apocalyptic!! God help us all. Plug those numbers into excel and you’ve got one very steep upward curve. If you use the font and colour options you can make the line very thick and red. Use a dotted line for the extrapolation and you have what’s going to happen in the future!!! Pure science.
At least that mask covers those fearsome gnashers!
The joke is that New Zealand is a country of 6m sheep 3m of whom think they are human. Where is New Zealand anyway.
Can’t wait until the day they lockdown for a vaccinated person who caught it lol.
Fuck me they are insane
Hmm, one frickin infection and complete lockdown. What. The. Fuck.
Has that power hungry, mad cow not learned a bloody thing about what you do to your societal collective health when via hubris and arrogance try to cheat nature?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/300350772/rsv-outbreak-nz-seeing-exponential-increase-in-cases-but-what-is-it
Why are we seeing this now?
University of Otago epidemiologist Professor Michael Baker said that like influenza, RSV was “very intensely seasonal”.
“The virus is circulating in New Zealand – we see it every winter,” he said.
It “disappears” for long periods of the year and ‘’we see very abrupt spikes”.
Lockdown restrictions last year caused rates of influenza-like illness to drop to almost zero, as people stayed home and kept public health measures front of mind.
Border closures essentially blocked RSV from coming into New Zealand.
The flip-side of this is that people were not exposed to viruses such as RSV and therefore did not develop any immunity.
This sudden surge in RSV cases has been linked to the trans-Tasman bubble opening, with doctors saying that Australians arriving in New Zealand are infecting susceptible populations with no or reduced immunity.
So …. snap lockdowns and closed international borders for-fucking-ever as you dig yourself deeper into a health crisis. But don’t… Read more »
I imagine you can make money from it when you know that the infection is going to take place in advance – I mean – everything closes, stock market crashes, but you short it to hell in advance. What a nice way to fuck up a country and get very rich in the process.
Fear x ignorance x Marxism = Totalitarianism
NZ really must learn from Europe and the USA — they’re not doing nearly enough testing to identify all the horrible covid risks for their population. I’d suggest an immediate tenfold rise in the number of daily cases identified, working to five times higher again over the coming weeks — this would get cases up a bit, and then perhaps they could get more people into facemasks, get more children out of school, get more of those pesky small businesses into financial difficulty and, most importantly of all, get more jabs into arms.
NZ on full lockdown, even the children of essential workers. What’s her aim when the economy is completely trashed? Sounds as if she has lost it, does she look at other countries that are living normally?
Don’t worry China will fund the country so the New Zealanders have nothing to worry about, their leader has taken good care of the situation.
What was the amplification of cycle thresholds New Zealand? Emperor Fauci stated last year anything over 35 is useless.
Drop it to 25, get better results, less false positives, less cases and… oh wait it is part of a bigger plan. See you all after 2025/26 folks.
Exposing the real Jacinda Ardern
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3znahD-f5lo
And to think “our ode mon” (my dad) wanted to emigrate to New Zealand in the 50’s!!!
By leddy, am dun wi’em (as my grandad would’ve said)
Is she keeping it ‘safe’ for the rich people who are buying their NZ Panic properties for whatever reason
Nothing to do with the phantom C1984.
Reset.
Nuttier than Chinese Chicken Salad. Trouble is, Australia and New Zealand have gone so far down the zero Covid rabbit hole they can’t back up.
Mind you, as I write this, the radio has yet another item about the horrors of Long Covid. No sign of the madness ending anytime soon.
At least they serve as a cautionary tale to the world what NOT to do. Let’s hope.
We must fight – Justice will prevail if we stick to our principles!!
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What exactly is the endgame here according to Jacinda? You cannot eliminate a virus particularly if you open the borders even with a leaky vaccine.
Hold on until the next election before this shit blows up would be my guess. After all, democratic politicians rarely think beyond elections.
Delete the last two words and you’re spot on.
Maybe the endgame is that they’ll be reopened in the 23rd century by some futuristic version of Commodore Perry. 😉
She’s never going to open the borders… (my guess)
This will never end. For anyone with family in NZ, prepare yourself for a long wait before you see them in the flesh.
I’ve already told my UK family that as things are I will never be able to go and see them again. I hate those responsible for this crime against people that they are committing.
I generally say ‘never say never again’ (even though it was a crap Bond film) but unless we have a radical change in global governance and mindset I think overseas travel for anyone other than the elites is going to be very difficult for the foreseeable future.
And so it will go on, probably for ever.
One of my brothers lives in New Zealand, God help him.
I have a SiL and her family over in Christchurch. We loved visiting them over there but sadly it’s looking highly likely we’ll never go again.
I’m surprised the waves haven’t washed Christchurch into the sea.
Confuscious say: he who builds on reclaimed land in an earthquake zone is one hell of a brainless fsckwit.
So very true. I don’t know why anyone would still live in Christchurch.
I don’t know if anyone really “lives” there any more, beyond mere existence.
I suspect Ardern does alright.
There’s always a Gn meeting or a Davos event that has to be attended. I’m amazed she has time to deal with mere plebs like the average New Zealander.
She’s priming herself for her shot at the UN. She’s a fanatical adherent to all of their policies. Her mentor, Aunty Helen Clark had a shot a few years ago but missed out. Ardern is her protege.
Imagine if a foreign nation had invaded and was doing this. Oh wait.