New Zealand Has Eliminated COVID-19?

New Zealand- Recently, New Zealand reports that it has eliminated COVID-19 within their country but it says “elimination” doesn’t means “zero” cases but they are able to reduce the number into a single number and that mean to them a victory over COVID-19.

“But because those new cases remain in the single digits, the country’s leaders are still calling it a job well done.” (Futurism)

“Ashley Bloomfield, New Zealand ‘s Director General Of Health, said the low number “does give us confidence that we’ve achieved our goal of elimination, which that never meant zero but it does mean we know where our cases are coming from.” He added: “Our goal is elimination. And again, that doesn’t mean eradication but it means we get down to a small number of cases so that we are able to stamp out any cases and any outbreak that might come out.””(CNN)

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that COVID-19 or coronavirus is currently eliminated in their country but elimination she said doesn’t mean “zero”; there may be small number of cases and they remain alert or ready for new cases to come out that could consider victory over the virus or coronavirus.

“New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the coronavirus was “currently” eliminated….” (CNN)

“”So as we have said elimination means we may well reach zero but we may well then have small numbers of cases coming up again, that doesn’t mean we have failed,”” (CNN)

 

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