Govt focus turns to 'safe economic activity' as level 3 looms

Govt focus turns to 'safe economic activity' as level 3 looms
Pattrick Smellie
The government is focusing with business and trade unions on how to define "safe economic activity" as it prepares new guidelines for which sectors will be able to open up when the country moves from the current full national lockdown to alert levels 3 and 2.Finance Minister Grant Robertson told Parliament's epidemic response select committee today that where the current alert level 4 lockdown was all about allowing "essential industries" and no others to operate, the government needed to "give as much clarity as we can possibly give as to what...

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