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New Zealand must prepare for new coronavirus outbreaks as the pandemic spreads globally but will not drop its elimination strategy if community transmission was discovered, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said.
Ardern said the epidemic is now “exploding” outside New Zealand and countries that had been models in the fight against Covid-19 are now experiencing further community outbreaks.
“No system is 100 per cent fool proof and around the world we are seeing even the most rigorous measures being tested by the virus,” she told reporters in Wellington.
