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Edwards on Politics
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Is anyone pleased with government’s new Covid-19 strategy?

ANALYSIS: The government is shedding its elimination strategy but still intends stamping out the virus.

Brent Edwards Thu, 07 Oct 2021

The government is damned if it does and damned if it doesn’t.

As well, in trying to please everybody with its changed response to the Covid-19 pandemic, it risks pleasing no one.

Monday’s decision to relax Auckland’s alert level-3 settings, while still staying at level-3, has angered

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Brent Edwards Thu, 07 Oct 2021
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