Lockdown Blues: How Covid’s Delta Variant Popped New Zealand’s Pandemic Bubble
After a single positive case of Covid-19 two weeks ago, New Zealand headed into a strict nationwide lockdown. For a world jaded by a global pandemic that has claimed more than 4.5 million lives, the news felt almost bemusing; an odd throwback to March 2020.
Though New Zealand’s Covid-19 approach has been among the world’s most successful, the rush to lockdown revealed huge flaws in the South Pacific nation’s pandemic strategy.
