First, they still have no idea where the current outbreak came from. Importantly, they have all but eliminated the Americold facility where one of the early positives worked. Americold is cold storage warehouse for imported food, mostly from Australia and the U.S. It still could have come from Australia somehow, but the U.S. has been eliminated as a possible source because the strain of virus they found has never been in the U.S.
Second, journalists around the world are showing how clueless they actually are by focusing on the 4 week delay made to New Zealand's upcoming election. I think this is nothing more than Trump Derangement Syndrome: New Zealand is a parliamentary system, and the Prime Minister always has broad latitude to reschedule elections. This is barely news in New Zealand, where in a set of bullet points about the outbreak, rescheduling the election is second from the bottom.
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The Auckland outbreak is up to 69, and there are charts that give some scale to that in this live blog. Lab workers are putting in 12 hour days doing tests ... and that's with an outbreak that appears to be coming under control. It's not sustainable if it gets much bigger.
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