Focus on Auckland before level 1 considered: Bloomfield

Focus on Auckland before level 1 considered: Bloomfield
Dan Brunskill
The Ministry of Health is focused on easing Auckland’s additional level 2.5 covid restrictions before it advises the government on when to lower the national alert level. Director general of health, Ashley Bloomfield told Parliament’s health select committee the next step in easing restrictions was moving Auckland down from its ‘transitional’ alert level 2.5 to a regular alert level 2.“We haven’t been asked for, and are not yet thinking about, advice for taking Auckland or indeed the whole...

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