Longer lockdowns – What are New Zealanders being prepared for?
Longer lockdowns, $30b wage subsidy, and food rationing in Covid worst-case scenario Stuff, 4 March, 2021 Longer lockdowns, a $30 billion six-month wage subsidy, rationing food, closing supermarkets and pharmacies, and forcing companies to stop exporting goods overseas were all considered as part of the Government’s “worst-case scenario” Covid response, released to Stuff under the Official Information Act and revealed here for the first time. On April 7, 2020, New Zealand reached a milestone. With 54 new cases and 65…