'It's never a good time for a resurgence of coronavirus, but the timing of this latest outbreak is particularly bad for Ardern,' writes juliaholli
They could let coronavirus creep into the community and brace for an onslaught, as other countries around the world had done. Or they could"go hard" by closing the border -- even if that initially hurt the island nation's hugely tourism-dependant economy.How New Zealand 'eliminated' Covid-19 after weeks of lockdownArdern opted for the second path.
"I want to acknowledge, at the outset, that testing of staff working at our border has been too slow," Health Minister Chris Hipkins said Tuesday."It has not met the very clear expectations of Minister, the decisions that Cabinet has made were not implemented in a timely or a robust manner, and that is disappointing and frustrating.
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