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'Go hard go early' might work for NZ
All eyes are on the Ardern government's handling of the coronavirus crisis after its lockdown has resulted in what is essentially a police state.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has made the strategic choice of taking tough measures to deal with the coronavirus crisis. Getty
On midnight last Wednesday in New Zealand, something unimaginable even three weeks earlier happened: a state of emergency was declared and the country went into a "level four" lockdown, effectively becoming a police state.
The aim is to stop the person-to-person transmission of the coronavirus. New Zealand now has 514 cases in total, seven in hospital and one in ICU. The first death was recorded on Sunday, a woman in her 70s on the remote west coast of the South Island.
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