Earlier this month, the New Zealand government admitted that its zero-Covid strategy was no longer feasible in the face of the highly infectious delta variant of the coronavirus.
New Zealand has extended the ongoing lockdown of its largest city Auckland for two more weeks amid an unrelenting delta variant-fueled Covid-19 outbreak, a move that comes at a time when the country is looking to rapidly vaccinate its population as it moves away from its ‘zero-Covid’ strategy....
Ardern said the measures are being kept in place to minimize cases while the vaccine uptake rises and any “interim easing” would impact that plan.Acknowledging the need for clarity about the path out of lockdown, Ardern said she and her government would lay out a new framework for mitigating outbreaks on Friday which would include a vaccination target before it goes into effect.
Ardern noted that the vaccination target for the new measures to go into effect will be very high and a vaccination pass system would be put in place.66%. That’s the percentage of eligible people in New Zealand who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, a total of 2.77 million people, according to