Source: New Zealand Institute of Economic Research
30 November 2021
The recent emergence of the new COVID-19 variant Omicron highlights just how quickly conditions can change. Before this discovery, New Zealand was already grappling with the inevitable community spread of COVID-19 as restrictions are relaxed from December. By the time New Zealand moves to the new traffic light system on Friday, 3 December, Auckland would have spent 107 days in either Alert Level 3 or Alert Level 4 – a much more prolonged period of time under severe restrictions than the lockdown last year.
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