New Zealand Gets One COVID Case: Goes Into Lockdown

New Zealand Gets One COVID Case: Goes Into Lockdown

August 17, 2021 ctn_admin

CTVNEWS – New Zealand’s government took drastic action today by putting the entire nation into a strict lockdown for at least three days after finding a single case of coronavirus infection in the community.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern invoked some of the stirring rhetoric she used early in the pandemic by urging the “team of 5 million” — New Zealand’s population — to go hard and early in trying to eliminate the latest outbreak.

“We have seen what happens elsewhere if we fail to get on top of it,” Ardern said. “We only get one chance.”