08-17-2021, 05:30 PM
(08-17-2021, 10:04 AM)tomh009 Wrote: NZ back on (likely a short) lockdown today due to a single case of community transmission. Their vaccination rates are still quite low.
Hi from your NZ correspondent! Currently announced as at least 7 days for Auckland (+the Coromandel, maybe sort of equivalent to the Kawarthas?) and 3 days for the rest of NZ, while the government figures out the scope of the outbreak. Wastewater testing from a few days ago returned negative, so it's pretty new. Four new cases this morning including a breakthrough case in a nurse. Sequencers going all out. Was just short of 6 months without an outbreak.
It was announced last week that any Delta outbreak would trigger level 4, ie no takeout. They presumed it was Delta and it indeed was (100% of cases at the border have been Delta).
Not enough vaccines delivered yet but they're coming. My spouse got hers two days ago due to job. General availability for bookings for me was supposed to open today.
By the way the Ontario Delta numbers are probably no longer useful to report.