Events like weddings and funerals will be limited to 100 people, all of whom must be vaccinated. Schools will stay open, but all pupils from third grade up must wear masks. “At Red, businesses stay open and you can do most of things that you normally do, including visiting family and friends and traveling around the country,” she said.īut people who are not vaccinated will face significant restrictions, including being barred from worship services and from businesses that serve food or drinks. Ardern said the new measures, classified as “Red” under the country’s traffic-light-based system, were “not lockdown.” Ardern said they had recently flown on the same Air New Zealand flight as an air steward who later tested positive with Omicron. It was unclear how the people in Nelson - members of a single, multigenerational family - had contracted the virus, though Ms.
The daily average is calculated with data that was reported in the last seven days. Source: Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. Over the last two months, New Zealand has reported just a few dozen new cases per day.
New Zealand was pursuing a zero-Covid strategy until last year, when a major outbreak of the Delta variant forced it to give up those aspirations. Ardern said at a news conference announcing the restrictions. “That means Omicron is now circulating in Auckland and possibly the Nelson-Marlborough region, if not elsewhere,” Ms. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said some of the infected people had attended a large wedding in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city. The cases, in the South Island town of Nelson, are the first Omicron infections detected outside of workers connected to the international airport or the country’s hotel quarantine facilities. New Zealand announced on Sunday that it would impose its highest level of Covid restrictions across the country at midnight, after at least nine cases of the highly transmissible Omicron variant were reported. Alex Burton/NZ Herald, via Associated Press The restrictions were put in place after several cases of the Omicron variant were reported in a single family that had attended a large wedding and other events in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city. At red, businesses stay open and you can do most of the things that you normally do, including visiting family and friends and moving around the country.
So, at red, in many ways, life carries on as per usual, but with more mask wearing and distancing precautions and reducing gathering limits to lower the risk of picking up the virus and super-spreader events. On that basis, as we have previously signaled, the whole of New Zealand will move into the red setting of the traffic light system at 11:59 p.m. That means Omicron is now circulating in Auckland and possibly the Nelson-Marlborough region, if not elsewhere. Nine Covid-19 cases reported yesterday in the Nelson-Marlborough region have now been confirmed as the Omicron variant, and a further case from the same household was confirmed late yesterday. Transcript New Zealand Imposes Its Highest Level of Covid Restrictions The restrictions were put in place after several cases of the Omicron variant were reported in a single family that had attended a large wedding and other events in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city.
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