Peters was responding to what he described as a "cheap shot" , after Hosking yesterday suggested Peters was gilding the lily in not taking responsibility for some of the holes in New Zealand's Covid response. In this business you ensure you have oversight, constant referral back every week - what's going wrong, what's going right." "We're five months too late doing most of these things but we are doing them now. To be really confident, we should be waiting to see days where there's no new cases," Wilson told Mike Hosking. An "overwhelming" majority of cases were already identified through contact tracing and tested as a result of that, Rainger said.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 03, 2020 23:03 UTC