He lies again....
The President of the United States at least three times recently has said that "New Zealand is in the grip of a terrific surge in Covid19 cases." He said it is "terrible!" and the "we (i.e. the United States) would not want that." Fact check from New Zealand. Our prime minister tactfully said, "That's patently wrong." Here are the facts....
(a) Anybody that comes into the country has to quarantine in facilities for two weeks. There have been some cases in these facilities. Confined.
(b) We went 102 days without any community transmission. They continued to do a lot of testing but no community transmission came to light.
(c) Then there was found to be one family of four who tested positive for the virus in Auckland. This one family had contacts with workplaces, schools, relatives and friends. There has been an increase in testing in Auckland and tracing done. The Auckland region has gone into level 3 Lockdown, the rest of the country is in Level 2 (We have to keep social distancing and more emphasis on hand washing, and the elderly remaining home as much as possible. Rest homes are in Lockdown. )
(d) From that one family there is now a cluster of about 80 people in the city of Auckland. There have been no new deaths. There has been limits on travel in and out of Auckland. Auckland region has about 1.6 million people. The "surge" (If "surge" can be used of such few cases - 11 new cases found today... 5 yesterday) is totally limited to Auckland and northern North Island. It is believed through tracing and genome tests that the cluster is now "circled". The rest of the country is free of Covid19.
(e) New Zealand has a Covid Death rate of 4.5 deaths per million population. The United states has 528.2 deaths per million. The United States has 16,563 cases per million people. We have 269 cases per million people. I would suspect most Americans would prefer New Zealand figures rather than the figures they have currently.... yet Mr Trump says, "We wouldn't want that." Our increase was disappointing but I know where I would rather live. All deaths are sad. All cases are sad. ....
... BUT Mr Trump you "mis spoke", "Your information is incorrect" or "You are lying!".
Sorry to post again but I love NZ and I think our Prime minister and the health officials have done and are doing a good job and I dislike their efforts being mis-represented.
... and Mr Trump we did not do well just to "get at you" - Our leaders and cooperating population did it for the good of our country and our people.
It is far from over, I hope we can keep on being responsible until there is an adequate vaccine for this nasty bug.
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