By Bloomberg
Two years after the pandemic began, New Zealanders are finally facing its reality.After keeping the virus at bay for so long, Covid-19 is now tearing through the nation’s population courtesy of the highly infectious Omicron variant. In the space of two weeks, new case numbers exploded from less than 1,000 a day to more than 22,000.“Psychologically it’s quite a big shock because to date the pandemic has been largely something that’s happened to other people,” said Michael Baker, Professor of…
Source: Coronavirus: Omicron explosion in New Zealand renders curbs, isolation requirements obsolete



