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New Zealand begins to ease lockdown

Hundreds of thousands of people return to work, but many shops remain closed.

New Zealand has done it.聽鈥淓limination does not mean zero cases, it means zero tolerance for cases鈥� according to Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister. There is no widespread undetected community transmission of the coronavirus, so people are released from the toughest measures of the New Zealand lockdown. The country has had fewer than 1,500 cases of Covid-19 infection and under 20 deaths.

(Image: New Zealand"s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Credit: AFP)

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