Professor Patricia Kearney:

To be clear, we are advocating an elimination strategy as was adopted in New Zealand. The outbreak of cases that occurred was due to problems with implementation of the strategy.

They have certainly introduced a lockdown very quickly and they had a very agile response. The likelihood is they are doing an outbreak investigation and in Auckland they will be able to return to normality as soon as possible. The rest of New Zealand has largely been able to continue with the normal lives they had been able to attain. To me, it is a very different lockdown than is happening here at present.