New Zealand’s Rapid Response to New Cases Is What Pandemic Leadership Looks Like

Auckland is under strict restrictions after four new cases of Covid-19 popped up

Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog
4 min readAug 11, 2020

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On Tuesday, New Zealand confirmed four new coronavirus cases — its first since May 1. That means there were 102 days during which there was no community spread of Covid-19 in the island nation…

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Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Editor, Medium Coronavirus Blog. Senior editor at Future Human by OneZero. Previously: science at Inverse, genetics at NYU.