WELLINGTON - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern extended a lockdown in the country’s biggest city on Friday in response to the first national coronavirus outbreak in months, sticking with a “go early, go hard” approach she said has proven effective.
The New Zealand leader said lockdown measures in Auckland, home to about 1.7 million people, and social distancing measures across the country that were imposed on Wednesday would remain in place for another 12 days. Ardern is under pressure ahead of a upcoming general election, with the main opposition National Party accusing the government of failing to secure quarantine facilities and withholding information.
Health Minister Chris Hipkins said earlier that genome testing suggested the new virus outbreak had originated in Britain or Australia. The current Level 3 restrictions in Auckland requiring people to mostly remain at home, and level 2 restrictions for the rest of the country, are not as severe as the five-week level 4 shutdown she imposed earlier in the year.
There were concerns a repeat of that process would come with a huge economic cost and Ardern on Friday announced the extension of a wage subsidy scheme and mortgage deferral program to support businesses and protect jobs.
قرار شجاع من رئيسة الوزراء لإغلاق مدينة اوكلاند العاصمة الاقتصادية للبلاد بالكامل بعد اكتشاف 4 حالات لفايروس كورونا !!وذلك بعد 100 يوم من عدم اكتشاف حالات جديدة افكر في مدينتي الصغيرة ذات الـ 180 الف نسمة وبمعدل 30 اصابة يومياً للشهرين الماضيين والتي تعيش حياة مفتوحة بالكامل🤷🏻♂️
No messing, that’s the way to do it.
karolcummins GavinNewsome
How many $s paid FMI?
Occident is starving due to the pandemic, to survive people is required to remain home, which unfortunately kill the economies. Everyone is dying, but not China. Time to wake up and discover the reality, the evil plan from China to control the World and to impose their system
And Covid will still be there after lockdown. Covid 1 Jacinda Ardern 0 Auckland AucklandLockdown
She is going to defeat it a 2nd time before CyrilRamaphosa and DrZweliMkhize figure out what the fuck ... They will watch but not learn. When you are destined to fail ...
Tyrants
Told you so...12 positive tests on millions of ppl...hurry up! Lockdown!
that tyranny always happens when either the left, beta males or women are on the helm. I feel bad for the kiwis
She’s always overreacting and hysterical. I hope they do the right thing in the coming election
Why are they showing dave grohl?
martyvidnovic I think the naysayers here should get their facts straight - our aim was to flatten the curve,we did that & we have ALWAYS expected it to come back we prepared for it.Our economy is taking a beating, but we are not beaten ! KIA KAHA AOTEAROA
You mean, “prolongs the inevitable.”
Lots of envious people in this thread.
Something for this marxist to get her teeth into that furthers her state control agenda. Internment and election postponement. She must be filling up with happiness!
If they are negotiating with the UK at the moment ..... then they have found the source. Anyway, she is doing a very good job, one of the best leaders in the world.
When people say New Zealand as a good example I laugh. They think it is a war that can be won. It can’t and it is a fools game to think that you can. They have sealed themselves from the world and yet they have it again. COVID is a wildfire that always happens treat it as such.
Proof that just shutting your country down and running your economy into the ground doesn't work, covid will come eventually and it will work its way through your population!
Arden is a Fabian socialist, so is Dan Andrews. Globalist agenda being rolled out through their think tank lackeys.
Bet she’s rubbish in bed
Remember a month ago when broadsheets and news websites were awash with the headline “New Zealand eradicates Coronavirus”. What absolute nonsense.
Until at least 2075.
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