PM Jacinda Ardern Important Update on Corona Virus 2020 Hi Everyone. I know most of you will have seen the news already about the next moves on COVID-19, but here’s a written version just in case you didn’t. As you will have seen, on Saturday I announced that New Zealand would be adopting an alert system in order to prepare our country for the impacts of COVID-19 and I placed us at Alert Level 2. This is a situation that is moving at pace. In order to protect the health and wellbeing of New Zealanders, we must move at pace, too. That is why this morning Cabinet met to discuss the next actions our Government needed to take in order to protect our country from COVID-19. Cabinet agreed that effective immediately, New Zealand will move to Alert Level 3 - Restrict. After 48 hours - the time required to ensure essential services are in place - we will move to Alert Level 4 - Eliminate, at 11.59pm on Wednesday. Once New Zealand moves to Level 4, we’ll remain there for a
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