General
How a catastrophic global pandemic has given Australia a new lens on New Zealand
In late March 2020, a young woman announced she was closing down her country.
“If community transmission takes off in New Zealand, the number of cases will double every five days,” New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, told a press conference on March 23. “If that happens unchecked, our health system will be inundated and tens of thousands of New Zealanders will die.”
On March 19, both Australia and New Zealand announced they would close their borders. What triggered Ardern’s move to go even further on March 23 was just two cases of COVID-19 in New Zealand due to community transmission, on top of 100 cases among travellers.
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