ニュージーランドもゼロコロナ戦略から転換

 

Anger and grief: New Zealanders fearful as Covid elimination strategy ends https://t.co/ABUDifqAGV

— Guardian Australia (@GuardianAus) October 5, 2021

ニュージーランドもゼロコロナ戦略から転換

Part of the sadness, Wiles said, was that elimination had proven to be a highly equitable strategy – it protected almost all New Zealanders. As the country shifted gears to allow an outbreak to spread through the community, outcomes would take the same course as it had across the rest of the world – skewed against poor people, those with disabilities, or ethnicities experiencing other forms of disadvantage.

ゼロコロナ戦略ではロックダウンで国民平等の負担を負ったが、今後感染拡大を許容することによって弱者にしわ寄せが行くだろう、と。

The country has held fast to a Covid-zero strategy for the past 18 months. That has been rewarded with some of the world’s best outcomes through the pandemic: extremely low hospitalisations and deaths, little in the way of day to day restrictions, low unemployment and robust economic survival. 

ゼロコロナによって、入院率も死亡率も低かったし、失業率も低く、経済も強固だった、と。

New Zealand drops COVID-19 elimination strategy under pressure from Delta

By Praveen Meno

"With this outbreak and Delta the return to zero is incredibly difficult," Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told a news conference in a major policy shift.

しかし、デルタには勝てなかったんだね。

ーー戦略を変えたからといって、ゼロコロナ戦略が間違っていたとは言えないーー大きな利得もあった。状況が変わったら戦略を変えるのも合理的。

　ただし、ワクチン接種をもっと普及させておけばよかったねえ。