New Zealand won’t be coming out of alert level 4 lockdown earlier than the full four weeks, despite promising signs, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says.
Ardern is giving a press conference in the Beehive in Wellington, updating the public on the latest decisions about the response to the Covid 19 pandemic.
On how long we’ll stay in level 4 lockdown, Ardern said she didn’t want New Zealand to be locked down “a minute more” than necessary.
But we won’t be brought out of lockdown early, she said.
She didn’t want the gains in the first half of the lockdown to be lost in the second half.
Ardern said the four-week lockdown allowed health authorities to see where the spread had happened but should have stopped further transmissions.
It would be four weeks minimum, she said.
Ardern said every day of the four weeks was important because it showed where the infections were because of the lag with Covid 19.
The four weeks would show where community transmission had happened.
We have positive signs, but Ardern said “we shouldn’t get ahead of ourselves”.
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