Why New Zealand’s decision to go into a Nationwide lockdown

Arindam Basu
2 min readAug 17, 2021

… makes sense

Health authorities in NZ have identified a single case of a person in the community today. A person in a North Island town was identified with Covid19 positive, but we do not know as yet if this person was infected with delta variant. Within hours, even with this incomplete information, the Prime Minister and the Director General of Health Services…

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Arindam Basu

I am a Medical Doctor and an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at the University of Canterbury. Founder of TwinMe,