Wood's opening remarks were to remind the committee that ordinary employment law continues to apply under alert level 4. "I'm sorry that incident happened but we did want to tell people what the options were," Bloomfield told The AM Show. Yesterday was a record for new daily cases in this Delta outbreak, with 62 announced, taking the total number of cases in the outbreak to 210. "Indeed, the fact that the rate of increase is not exponential is explicitly because we have alert level 4 in place." The Government is facing questions over whether it had been able to scale up its Covid response quick enough to deal with the Delta outbreak.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 25, 2021 17:03 UTC