New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern discusses the country's reopening plans and why the Omicron variant isn't a cause for panic, at the WSJCEOCouncil summit
New Zealand's shift to living with Covid-19, from its previous zero-cases strategy, doesn't mean treating the virus as casually as influenza, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.
Ms. Ardern acknowledged that New Zealand faced a challenge in shifting residents’ mindset toward accepting that Covid-19 would continue to circulate in the community. New Zealand, a remote South Pacific country of around five million people, pursued a strategy of eliminating Covid-19 for a large part of the pandemic that resulted in very low levels of illness compared with other developed nations.
Key drivers of the decisions for a strict initial lockdown and the continuing border closure were the likelihood that the country's hospitals would have been quickly overwhelmed--even with measures to slow the spread of the virus--and the prospect of a disproportionate toll on Pacific Island peoples and indigenous Maori, she said.
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