Yesterday, New Zealand lifted all restrictions imposed to combat the outbreak of the new Corona virus, after another infected person recovered on its soil was still isolated. The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, explained that border controls will remain in effect, adding that measures of social separation and restrictions on groupings of people are no longer necessary.

"We are confident that we have now eliminated the virus from transmission in New Zealand," Ardern said in a televised speech, adding that citizens "have unified in an unprecedented way to defeat the virus."

There were 1,154 confirmed injuries and 22 deaths in New Zealand, and no new cases were recorded 17 days ago. A week ago, there was only one active injury, and the Director General of the Ministry of Health, Ashley Bloomfield, announced yesterday that this person had recovered and was no longer in isolation. He said in a statement that «the absence of any active injury for the first time since February 28 is of course an important step in Our journey, but as we have already said, it will be necessary to maintain vigilance against (Covid 19). Health alert in New Zealand has been reduced to one level on a scale of four degrees, which means that theaters can open their doors, as well as bars without any restrictions on the number of people within them, and the Prime Minister indicated that lifting the restrictions will allow the support of the national economy. She added: "We are ahead of the resumption of economic activity, because one level makes our economy one of the most open economies in the world, if not the most open." She explained that models show that at one level, the economy is activated by 96% of its capacity, compared to only 63% At level four.

Ardern: “We are sure we have eliminated the virus in New Zealand today.”

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