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The case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower than SARS of 2003, [17] [18] but the transmission has reportedly been significantly greater, according to a statement by Prof. Azra Ghani from MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Imperial College London, a World Health Organization collaborating centre.
[176] [177] [178] On 2 August 2021, COVAX delivered additional batch containing 1.18 million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine shipped from Laboratorio Univesal Farma, manufacturing facility in Spain, to Vietnam. [179] [180] On 10 August 2021, Viet Nam received 494,400 doses of COVID-19 vaccine AstraZeneca from the COVAX Facility. [181] [182]
People arriving in New Zealand without symptoms of COVID-19 go into a managed isolation facility for at least 14 days. [5] People arriving in New Zealand with symptoms of COVID-19 or who test positive after arrival go into a quarantine facility and are unable to leave their room for at least 14 days. [5] Mandatory self-isolation may be applied.
COVID-19 pandemic in the Cook Islands; COVID-19 managed isolation in New Zealand; COVID-19 Protection Framework; COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020; COVID-19 Response (Vaccinations) Legislation Act 2021; COVID-19 vaccination in New Zealand
Infection rates dropped and stabilised throughout 2022 and 2023, leading to the end of COVID-19's classification as a severe transmissible disease in June 2023. [ 22 ] Although the pandemic has heavily disrupted the country's economy , [ 23 ] Vietnam's GDP growth rate has remained one of the highest in Asia-Pacific , at 2.91% in 2020.
On 11 January, COVID-19 Response Minister Hipkins announced that the Government will introduce new border protection changes requiring most international travellers with the exception of those from Australia, Antarctica and some Pacific Island states to produce a negative COVID-19 test before travelling to New Zealand.
On 28 February 2020, New Zealand confirmed its first case of COVID-19. [3] [4] At the daily 1 pm press conference on 14 March, Ardern announced that people entering New Zealand must go into a fortnight's self-isolation beginning on 16 March; people coming from Pacific Island nations were initially exempt from these restrictions. [5]
On 24 May, The New Zealand Herald reported that the Government had allocated a total of NZ$473 million from the 2022 New Zealand budget for purchasing and rolling out a possible fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. This figure included allocating NZ$284.3 million for implementing the COVID-19 immunisation strategy and allocating NZ$189.2m for ...