"There is a small chance that [NZ will experience] a more aggressive variant," Town said. The director-general has assessed this as orange as appropriate and we will continue to review that," Town said,"We are still seeing high numbers of cases," he said. "We are developing guidelines (for long Covid) and we hope to release those in July," Town said. We use a variety of information and testing tools to provide a better understanding of Covid and variants that are circulating," she said. At the border, officials were focused on catching new variants, Callaghan said.

Source: Otago Daily Times June 08, 2022 12:07 UTC