{"id":13615,"date":"2020-05-03T21:27:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T01:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/?p=13615"},"modified":"2020-05-18T12:55:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T16:55:34","slug":"new-zealand-says-it-has-eliminated-community-spread-of-the-coronavirus-but-is-keeping-most-restrictions-to-stop-it-coming-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/new-zealand-says-it-has-eliminated-community-spread-of-the-coronavirus-but-is-keeping-most-restrictions-to-stop-it-coming-back\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand says it has eliminated community spread of the coronavirus but is keeping most restrictions to stop it coming back"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-piano-inline-content-wrapper=\"\" id=\"piano-inline-content-wrapper\">\n<ul>\n<li>New Zealand is beginning to ease its strict lockdown, saying it has eliminated community transmission of the coronavirus, <a data-analytics-module=\"summary_bullets\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R__nYc_b1yU\">Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced at a public briefing<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>New cases have slowed almost to a standstill, and the country&#8217;s top health official Ashley Bloomfield said this &#8220;does give us confidence that we have achieved our goal of elimination,&#8221; <a data-analytics-module=\"summary_bullets\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-52436658\">the BBC reported<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Bloomfield says that any new cases in New Zealand would now be immediately traceable.<\/li>\n<li>Most lockdown restrictions, including border closures, will stay in place but non-essential businesses can reopen if they ensure no direct contact with customers.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;We are opening up the economy, but we&#8217;re not opening up people&#8217;s social lives,&#8221; said Ardern, according to the BBC.<\/li>\n<li>The country has recorded a total of 1,122 confirmed cases and 19 deaths from the disease, Bloomfield said at the briefing.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><a data-analytics-module=\"summary_bullets\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/?hprecirc-bullet\">Visit Business Insider&#8217;s homepage for more stories<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Zealand is easing its strict lockdown after new <a data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/coronavirus-live-updates-latest-news\">coronavirus<\/a> cases slowed almost to a standstill, prompting the country&#8217;s top health official to claim the country has &#8220;achieved our goal of elimination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced at a Monday public briefing that the country will begin at midnight Tuesday to de-escalate its stringent lockdown by allowing some non-essential businesses to reopen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re now 11 hours away from the lifting of Level 4, and of the strictest constraints placed on New Zealanders in modern history,&#8221; <a data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R__nYc_b1yU\">Ardern said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been nearly five weeks of living and working in ways that just two months ago would have seemed impossible. But we did, and we have done it together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ashley Bloomfield, the country&#8217;s\u00a0Director-General of Health, reported that there was just one new confirmed case of the virus to report that day, and four probable cases, all of which are traceable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This brings the country&#8217;s cumulative total to 1,122 confirmed cases, but Bloomfield added that &#8220;probable&#8221; cases \u2014 where testing has not yet confirmed a likely infection \u2014 would bring that total to 1,469. Nineteen people have died of the virus in New Zealand so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The total number of active cases in New Zealand has been in decline since April 9, <a data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.worldometers.info\/coronavirus\/country\/new-zealand\/\">according to Worldometer<\/a>. It now stands at 309, down from a peak of 929.<\/p>\n<p>Ardern added that according to modelling from her advisers, the country could have seen up to 1,000 new cases per day if the country had not enacted its lockdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure data-e2e-name=\"image-figure-image\" data-media-container=\"image\" data-type=\"img\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern looks on during a press conference at Parliament on April 07, 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand.\" data-content-type=\"image\/png\" data-srcs=\"{\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/5e8d169492e8ba07f6563f74\":{\"contentType\":\"image\/png\",\"aspectRatioW\":889,\"aspectRatioH\":667}}\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 1 1'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>      <span><figcaption data-e2e-name=\"image-caption\">\n          Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern looks on during a press conference at Parliament on April 07, 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand.<br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><span data-e2e-name=\"image-source\"><br \/>\n            Hagen Hopkins\/Getty<br \/>\n          <\/span><br \/>\n      <\/span><br \/>\n  <\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>This reduction in new cases, said Bloomfield, &#8220;does give us confidence that we have achieved our goal of elimination,&#8221; <a data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-52436658\">according to the BBC<\/a>. He clarified that this means any new cases would be immediately traceable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But, said Ardern, the country &#8220;must remain vigilant if we are to keep it that way,&#8221; the BBC reported.<\/p>\n<p>The country has responded to the crisis with some of the strictest measures worldwide, developing a four-tier alert system and entering a full &#8220;Level 4&#8221; lockdown on March 25.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The country had completely closed its border, banned mass gatherings, closed schools and shopping centers, and restricted socializing to &#8220;bubbles&#8221; of close relatives.<\/p>\n<p>Under Level 3, these restrictions will continue, but non-essential businesses will be allowed to trade as long as they have no face-to-face contact.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are opening up the economy, but we&#8217;re not opening up people&#8217;s social lives,&#8221; said Ardern, according to the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>She said that the government will meet on May 11 to discuss the possibility of moving to Level 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<section>\n<p><svg aria-labelledby=\"title desc\" height=\"50\" role=\"img\" space=\"preserve\" style=\"enable-background:new 0 0 50 50;\" version=\"1.1\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" width=\"50\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><title id=\"title\">Loading<\/title><desc id=\"desc\">Something is loading.<\/desc><path d=\"M43.935,25.145c0-10.318-8.364-18.683-18.683-18.683c-10.318,0-18.683,8.365-18.683,18.683h4.068c0-8.071,6.543-14.615,14.615-14.615c8.072,0,14.615,6.543,14.615,14.615H43.935z\" fill=\"#111\"><animatetransform attributename=\"transform\" attributetype=\"xml\" dur=\"0.6s\" from=\"0 25 25\" repeatcount=\"indefinite\" to=\"360 25 25\" type=\"rotate\"><\/animatetransform><\/path><\/svg><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/new-zealand-coronavirus-community-spread-ended-most-restrictions-stay-2020-4\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand is beginning to ease its strict lockdown, saying it has eliminated community transmission of the coronavirus, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced at a public briefing.New cases have slowed almost to a standstill, and the country&#8217;s top health official Ashley Bloomfield said this &#8220;does give us confidence that we have achieved our goal of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15706,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13615\/revisions\/15706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airpurifierspecialist.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}