New Zealand lifts lockdown as last coronavirus patient recovers:
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced New Zealand will lift its coronavirus lockdown allowing a return to a nearly normal life for the country's five million people, as health officials reported that the final person known to have contracted the infection had recovered.
Making the announcement at a news conference on Monday, Ardern said the government would not let down its guard over the virus and promised to rebuild an economy that has slowed because of the global pandemic.
[...] It has been 17 days since the last new case was reported in New Zealand, and Monday also marked the first time since late February that there have been no active cases.
[...] Officials were eager to stress that the coronavirus remained a concern given the growth of cases elsewhere in the world. Borders would remain closed, Ardern said, describing them as the "first line of defence". Only citizens and residents, with some exceptions, are currently allowed into the country.
[...] Elimination did not mean eradicating the virus permanently from New Zealand, but eliminating "chains of transmission" for at least 28 consecutive days after the last infected person left isolation, which would be on June 15, the ministry said.
[...] Experts say a number of factors have helped the nation wipe out the disease, including its isolated location, along with leadership shown by the prime minister, who imposed a strict lockdown early on during the outbreak.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @01:36AM (11 children)
What's wrong with Sweden, inmate?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @01:43AM
The cock I'm sucking is too thick and long.
(Score: 5, Informative) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday June 11 2020, @02:50AM (2 children)
Apart from the fact they fucked up their Covid-19 response, nothing. [stuff.co.nz]
So that's the guy who planned it admitting he got it wrong.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @11:18AM
No, that's the guy who was ignored, because politicians, finance scum, lobbyists etc didn't like the recommendations. And it was all over the political spectrum, but for different reasons.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 12 2020, @02:08AM
You in mass-imprisonment countries and your mainstream media truly suffer from Stockholm Syndrome. Desperate to justify your government's fuckups when Sweden, with its minimal restrictions, only has a 5% additional death load due to Covid when compared to the previous non-Covid year total deaths.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @03:27AM (3 children)
Sweden are commies. Volvo, Hasselblad. Now both sold to China. Hasselblad is part of the spy-drone empire known as DJI.
Back in the 70's and Abba, the Swedes were financing one AK-47 rifle for communist-backed "freedom" fighters (terrorists) for every vehicle sold. So if you or your dad bought a Volvo back then, you have blood on your hands worse than the slavery stain that is currently being newsworthy.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @03:47AM (2 children)
Facts:
Volvo [wikipedia.org]
Hasselblad [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 11 2020, @01:29PM (1 child)
Next sentence on Volvo:
Since 2010 it has been owned by the Chinese multinational automotive company Geely Holding Group.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday June 11 2020, @04:19PM
Sold to China by... Americans. By that argument "
SwedenAmerica are commies."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 4, Funny) by driverless on Thursday June 11 2020, @05:23AM (2 children)
I wouldn't go there, I hear the møøse bites kan be pretti nasti.
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Thursday June 11 2020, @05:35AM (1 child)
Absolutely. Especially very late autumn when they've been eating rotting/fermenting apples and are a bit drunk as a result. Moose are angry drunks from what I've seen.
Ps. you wanted ö not ø, lest you end up in Denmark or Norway instead
(Score: 2) by driverless on Thursday June 11 2020, @05:44AM
Norway? Where they filmed such classics as "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", and "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"?