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Hot Topic Hawke’s Bay
Hot Topic Hawke’s Bay
Opinion
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Lockdown failed, we need new approach

I’ve Been Thinking: It seems the Auckland lockdown will, over time, indirectly kill more people than it saved.

I’ve been thinking about how the government put Auckland into a three-day lockdown to trace the community Covid cluster. Twenty-one days later – after costing more than $1 billion, many business failures, jobs lost, and schooling disrupted – the government has given up. Putting the whole

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Richard Prebble Wed, 02 Sep 2020
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