The new regime will come into effect seven days after any change in alert level.
The Reserve Bank is keeping the tap on to provide banks with cheap funding even as those same banks raise their lending rates and fatten their margins.
Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr compared house prices to the bitcoin market and the 17th century tulip fiasco but said calling it a bubble isn't helpful.
NZ's adoption of saliva testing has been marred by misinformation and 'frustratingly slow', saliva testing expert Anne Wyllie says.