First case of Covid in New Zealand in six months is of the Delta Variant

[malaise]

There is a spike in Australia the vast majority of which are of the Delta variant

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Hasn't New Zealand been totally shut down since last year?

I thought no one was coming in at all, which makes me wonder how exactly someone got this.

[malaise]

2. Well I do know that New Zealand cricketers were playing in England earlier this summer

and I'm sure there are others.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. No doubt.

Although clearly, as a relatively small island nation it's a fuck of a lot easier for them to control who gets in than most countries.

[malaise]

13. Yes and no - wide open coastlines are difficult to police

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. They would be equally or more difficult just to get to.

[meadowlander]

9. No.

We had a total lockdown for 6 weeks last March/April and then opened up internally with border restrictions. Anyone coming into the country has to spend 2 weeks in managed isolation and quarantine and pass 3 consecutive negative Covid tests and then they're out in the general population with no restrictions except wearing a mask on airplanes.

This is the first time the whole country has gone back into total shutdown since April 2020 although there have been two or three small partial lockdowns in Auckland where breakthrough community cases have been shut down after a few days by contact tracing.

[Hortensis]

3. Presumably already competently contained and controlled,

or will be.

[malaise]

4. I think New Zealand is way ahead of the rest of us

[Hortensis]

5. :) Yes, lucky them. To live free of disease worries.

Of course, they have a certain geographic advantage.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

8. Every time I point that out, I tend to get push back saying

we could do the same thing.

Probably not.

[benfranklin1776]

6. Indeed as Jacinda is moving fast to contain any human carnage.

Rather like she did after an outbreak of murderous assault weapon facilitated violence.

https://tinyurl.com/3d9wh2uy

[meadowlander]

10. Ten cases now, all Delta

and some pretty worrying places of interest including bars, a casino, a church, Auckland hospital and a school so far.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-coronavirus-delta-outbreak-ten-cases-everything-we-know-about-them/ZASKENSFR6ULXIU2ZXWQ3FZSEU/

[malaise]

11. Damn

22 persons tested positive for Delta here

[cadoman]

12. no one does it by the science as well as NZ -- if it's physically possible they will contain it