New Zealand, which announced victory over the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus epidemic last week, has discovered two new cases, Reuters reported.
The infected are middle-aged citizens of the country who were allowed to return in a special manner. They were in the UK. Arriving in the country, they went to self-isolation – tests showed that they are carrying the disease. They were allowed to break the quarantine regime once to visit a dying relative.
Prime Minister Hasinda Ardern warned fellow citizens that these cases may not be the last, as more and more people return from abroad.
On June 9, the country's authorities announced that they would be the first in the world to remove all restrictive measures introduced in connection with the epidemic, leaving only closed borders. On June 8, the last patient with COVID-19 was cured there. Such success in the fight against the disease is explained by the timely introduced and enforced quarantine measures, as well as the large-scale testing carried out by New Zealand.
