Coronavirus: How New Zealand went ’hard and early’ to beat Covid-19 - BBC News
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As the virus spread globally, a flight ban was also extended to Iran - the origin of New Zealand’s first case - and restrictions placed on anyone arriving from South Korea, northern Italy, or who was showing symptoms.
As of midnight on 16 March, everybody - including New Zealanders - had to go into self-isolation on arrival in the country, unless they were coming from the largely unaffected Pacific island nations. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said these were the strictest regulations in the world, for which she would “make no apologies”. Then, a few days later, Ms Ardern took the unprecedented step of closing the borders entirely to almost all non-citizens or residents. “Doing this early on with only over a few thousand cases [worldwide] at the time allowed them to basically stop the influx and stop the community transmission,” Prof Martin Berka, an economist at the country’s Massey University, told the BBC.
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