New Zealand is celebrating 100 days without coronavirus. The Ministry of Health confirmed the feat in a statement on Sunday (August 9) that the nation, which has a population of just under 5 million, has gone 100 days with no detected COVID-19 spread, via multiple outlets.
New Zealand had a total of 1,569 confirmed cases and 22 deaths thus far, via Johns Hopkins. “Achieving 100 days without community transmission is a significant milestone, however, as we all know, we can’t afford to be complacent.
We have seen overseas how quickly the virus can re-emerge and spread in places where it was previously under control, and we need to be prepared to quickly stamp out any future cases in New Zealand,” New Zealand’s director-general of health Ashl