New Zealand’s first coronavirus cases in months may have come from food packaging

[Chris Smith]

• The coronavirus may have spread to New Zealand through frozen food packaging, health officials think.
• The country registered its first four cases in over 100 days, placing the entire city of Auckland back on lockdown.
• The novel coronavirus can survive on surfaces and can withstand refrigerated environments. Health officials are testing surfaces at a store where one of the newly infected patients works.

New Zealand should serve as a model on how to deal with a pandemic and handle a deadly new pathogen. The country has reported zero novel coronavirus cases in more than 100 days, but Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern placed the entire city of Auckland in lockdown after just four new COVID-19 cases were discovered.

The government swift’s response to the new cluster of COVID-19 cases isn’t the only thing happening in New Zealand worth paying attention to. Also important is an early conclusion from local epidemiologists who think their new COVID-19 cases were imported into the country by freight.

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