https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12319029


Covid 19 coronavirus alert 3:


Jacinda Ardern says schools closed, essential services only.


KEY POINTS
• NZ is in coronavirus lockdown for next four weeks after PM lifts alert status.
• Our coronavirus alert level will move up to 3 immediately and to 4 within 48 hours.
• Alert Level 4 will take effect from 11.59pm on Wednesday.
• Schools, childcare centres and universities will be closed from tomorrow.
• All non-essential businesses or services must shut in the next 48 hours.
• Kiwis should stay at home unless visiting an essential service, PM says.
• This will save tens of thousands of lives.
• Finance Minister announces new economic plan to help struggling companies and workers.

Schools and non-essential services across New Zealand will be closed for at least the next four weeks after the Government put the country in nationwide lockdown to try to stop the spread of coronavirus.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern acknowledged the magnitude of the measures as she announced them today, but said they could save the lives of tens of thousands of New Zealanders.

The country's coronavirus alert level would be raised to level 3 immediately.

In 48 hours the alert level would be raised to level 4 - "stay at home" instruction, schools and businesses closed except essential services, severely limited travel - and will remain in place for a minimum of four weeks.

The Prime Minister's Office has confirmed that Alert Level 4 will take effect from 11.59pm


on Wednesday.

Essential services would still be open at both alert levels, she said.

"Kiwis - go home ... If in doubt, don't go out," Ardern said of level 4.

"I have a very keen sense of the magnitude of this moment in New Zealand's history and we did not take this decision lightly.

"But we all absolutely believe this is the right thing to do. If community transmission takes off in New Zealand the number of cases will double every five days.

Kiwis should stay at home unless visiting an essential service, PM says.

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2020/03/23/1096856/covid-19-nz-moves-to-level-3


Supermarkets, pharmacies and other essential services would remain open,

but non-essential businesses were required to close their face-to-face functions - including bars, restaurants, cafes, cinemas, libraries, playgrounds and other places of public congregation.

All indoor and outdoor events must also be cancelled, with the entire country going into self-isolation. Schools would all close from midnight on Wednesday.

Ardern said New Zealand would move to Level 4 on Wednesday and was expected to remain in full lockdown for at least four weeks to break the chain of transmission.

Finance Minister Grant Robertson said the Government was significantly expanding its wage subsidy scheme, removing the $150,000 cap and widening the eligibility criteria, which would increase the cost from $5.1 billion to $9.3b - although that was an estimate, rather than a cap or a floor.

hand wringing, bed wetting , cowering woman in charge,

hide in the corner, covered with a sheet and the big bad scarey virus wont get you.

a virus that is so piss weak, of 10,000 people under 30 in south korea who tested positive it killed a total of zero.

pathetic

aquascoot wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2020 at 2:48pm:



Or maybe she knows something that you don't know?

Parliament in Australia sounded really scary today.
They were talking about 125,000 deaths here.

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2020 at 2:49pm:


nothing agaionst powerful women, just incompetant women

aquascoot wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2020 at 2:58pm:



She's got more balls than ScoMo.


You have Coronavirus denial syndrome just like PZ547.

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2020 at 3:03pm:



The death toll here could be as high as 300,000
in only 4 months.
It's a catastrophe caused by an airborne virus
that is impossible to stop.
Just by breathing air you get it.

Setanta wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2020 at 2:59pm:



nope,  i'm saying in a usual year 180,000 aussies pass on.
they are teetering on the brink and ANYTHING will tip them over.
so they get this virus or the flu and they pass.
it may hasten it by a few months, but that does NOT mean this virus added to the death toll.
because you cancel out the virus and something else has to cause it.

you dont just die of old age.
you are demolished and kept alive by modern medical miracles and then you get taken out.
totally natural.

go and ask the coroner if old folks have a diagnosis of "old age" as their cause of death.
they dont.
its usually some event like this virus.

does that mean the medical system has failed?
is everyone to be ventilated and put in ICU because we cant accept old people are mortal.

when the old eskimos wandered off into the snow when they got too old, was that a corrupt act or a noble act.

lets not trash the lives of 17 yo enjoying their senior year so 96 yo can lie in a bed for an extra 3 months of "survival"