Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield clashed with Newstalk ZB's Mike Hosking over New Zealand's elimination strategy. Bloomfield also rejected Hosking's suggestion that these days he sounded "more like a politician than a health professional ... you sound like you're doing the Government's bidding". Put to him several times that the elimination strategy has not worked, Bloomfield said: "Well, we're not back to zero ...""Yeah, but that's what elimination is," Hosking cut in. Hosking asked, before giving a rundown of the number of community cases in the last two weeks. Hosking, however, asked what the next move would be if we continued to see community cases in Auckland over the next two weeks in level 3.

Source: New Zealand Herald September 20, 2021 20:37 UTC