GAK67 Report This Comment
Date: April 07, 2020 06:43AM

This is from a website a friend of mine created: [covid19map.nz]

woberto Report This Comment
Date: April 07, 2020 06:48AM

How can you have new cases when you are all locked down for the last 2 weeks?

GAK67 Report This Comment
Date: April 07, 2020 07:04AM

Locked down is not never going out - you can still go to the supermarket, pharmacy, etc. You're also not isolated individually - you're with those you live with, so if one of them has it they can pass it on. Also, it takes up to 14 days for symptoms to show, and we've only been locked down for 12. Plus there are those that our Prime Minister said she would 'charitably describe as idiots' who break the rules.

pulse Report This Comment
Date: April 07, 2020 07:05AM

They're still allowed to supermarkets etc, nurses giving it to partners, etc I presume.

It's never been about stopping it completely, just making it so the health services can deal with it as it washes through. At least that's what we're doing here. Then we don't have a total lockdown either, just .. mostly. Enough that we give 16 year olds $1700 fines for taking driving lessons deemed non-essential.

kizame Report This Comment
Date: April 07, 2020 09:21AM

Also if you look at the time you can be A symtomatic,as in the case of one guy returning from the US,it was incubated in his body for 11 days prior to first symtoms.
So he went to get tested,because his first symtom was a headache that went on for a few days,they wouldn't test him because he didn't have a fever,but as other symptoms emerged,tested again he was positive,so all that time (11 days) he could have passed it to many. The seminar he returned from in the US had 40,000 attendees.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/04/2020 09:22AM by kizame.

GAK67 Report This Comment
Date: April 08, 2020 07:38AM

50 new cases today. The number of new cases each day is dropping. Hopefully it's a good sign and will continue in that direction. Still only 1 death, which is amazing given the number of cases.

Mrkim Report This Comment
Date: April 08, 2020 12:53PM

So good to hear things are goin so well for you cats down there GAK. There's obviously a positive side to being a bit off the well traveled path

GAK67 Report This Comment
Date: April 09, 2020 10:49AM

Only 29 new cases today. Things definitely seem to be improving. The lockdown seems to be having the desired effect.

woberto Report This Comment
Date: April 10, 2020 02:26AM

NZ total infected 1,283 so far which is 0.026 people per 100 (of the total population).
NZ total tested 51,165 which is 1.1 tests per 100 people (of the total population).

AUS total infected 6,152 so far which is 0.241 people per 100 (of the total population).
AUS total tested 330,134 which is 1.3 tests per 100 people (of the total population).

USA total infected 468,566 so far which is 0.142 people per 100 (of the total population).
USA total tested 2,353,096 which is 0.7 tests per 100 people (of the total population).