The NZ Ministry of Health had the pleasure to announce today that for the seventh day in a row, no new cases of COVID-19 had been detected in the country. There is no one in New Zealand receiving hospital-level care for COVID-19 and there is just one case still active. So successful has lockdown been for New Zealand in curtailing COVID (and romantic activity) that some are keen to try to stamp out other infections too.

The news comes as restrictions on people's activities are further eased in New Zealand and Australia, with Western Australia announcing today that it would implement a two square metre per person capacity rule for venues, replacing the previous four square metre rule in force elsewhere. It is to the absolute credit of healthcare authorities, healthcare workers and the governments of both countries that we have managed this pandemic so well.