Originally Posted by
empacher48
Try Level 3 for Auckland and 2 for the rest of the country. Level 4 cannot be put in place for individual provinces and is country wide only.
As in August, because the contact tracing team hasn’t figured out where they got it from, lock down to make sure it’s not being spread through the community without people knowing.
Unlike the community cases a few weeks ago, in November and October where the source can be traced back to MIQ, no alert levels were changed because contact tracers and genomic testing could identify a source.
If the contact tracing is good enough and you can quickly find the source and close contacts NZ does not change alert levels.
When there is no clear source, then yes alert levels change.
Compare NZ’s reaction to Victoria or WA, if NZ know where the case came from and close contacts are known (takes no longer than 24 hours for NZ contact tracers to identify close contacts, 48 hours for casual and casual+ contacts), so in the case of the Holiday Inn situation NZ would not have changed alert levels for that.
You are right of course. Typo on my part.
You are also right that it had been eliminated.
Reintroduced through a leaky quarantine and eliminated again.
I am of the belief that the current method of control, swift, brief restrictions in order for contact tracers to catch up is the best they have come up with so far.
It has worked, well and a precautionary 3 or 5 days is stand out better than a reactive 3 weeks or months.