- New Zealand announced a considerable milestone in dealing with the novel coronavirus: The country stopped the community transmission of COVID-19.
- New Zealand has eased some social distancing measures, allowing more people to return to work.
- However, people are still advised to stay indoors and life hasn’t returned to normal.
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“Community transmission” are two of the worst words you can hear from epidemiologists tracking the progress of infectious diseases. Once a pathogen reaches that level, it means the infection can’t be traced to a source. It means people have started getting the disease without knowing who infected them, and there are likely plenty of undetected cases. For COVID-19, it happened quite quickly in most countries where the novel coronavirus arrived. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the first community transmission of coronavirus on February 26th. It was a person in California who hadn’t traveled to China and wasn’t exposed to any known patients. Months later, we learned that the first person to die of COVID-19 complications actually succumbed to the disease much sooner than believed, in early February. In other words, coronavirus community transmission was happening well before the CDC confirmed it in the US, and it’s still happening right now.
Social distancing measures will help flatten the curve and reduce the number of infections significantly in all countries where they’re in effect. New Zealand is one of the countries with such measures in place, and the local government claims there are now no new cases of community transmission, which is a huge win for the country.
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