Dr Margaret Harris, spokesperson for the World Health Organisation, says he was referring to countries locking down the whole country instead of using contact tracing, testing and distancing. She says the second lockdown in Auckland was a targeted restriction and sometimes a suburb or section of society is put into quarantine. When countries have an outbreak and go into lockdown for a period of time it brings the transmission rate down, Harris said. WHO is saying that countries need to "do it all", Harris says. "Don't go from lockdown to nothing - that was really the point - don't go from nothing to lockdown, that was really the point Dr Nabarro was trying to make."

Source: New Zealand Herald October 12, 2020 20:26 UTC