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Arcanine2009 posted...

how strict is it over there in terms of going out to restaurants, hums, theaters? I understand people would go crazy.

Restrictions have been a bit all-over-the-place lately, but right now it depends on what part of the country you're in, with three different settings:

Northland, and about half of Waikato - Under a snap Alert Level 3 lockdown. Stay at home orders in effect, at this stage set to expire at 11:59 PM this coming Thursday, though could be extended (the Waikato one was originally meant to end tonight and the Northland one tomorrow, but both were extended earlier today). Click-and-collect / takeaways are allowed, but only essential services (eg. grocery stores, pharmacies, gas stations) can have customers enter the premises. Limitations on allowed recreational activites though not a total ban. Masks mandatory in pretty much any indoor place you're allowed to be other than your own home / vehicle. Waikato has been in this state for about a week, Northland has for about half a week.

Auckland - Under a long-term Alert Level 3 lockdown (they've been at either Level 3 or the even-stricter Level 4 since mid-August), on "phase 1" of reopening. Mostly the same as above, except that social meetups between two households, socially distanced and outdoors, are allowed. They're also working on reopening schools, but have delayed this.

Everywhere else, including the rest of Waikato - Under long-term Alert Level 2 restrictions. This is pretty much in line with what most of the world has had for the last year - limits on gathering sizes, mandatory masking in many settings, etc, but it's not a lockdown. (Level 1 for the record, is almost life-as-normal except for a very small number of situations with mandatory masks. Since June last year, the majority of the time has been spent with the entire country at Level 1, until mid-August this year when Delta finally hit us.)

Aside from Northland and Waikato, there were a handful of cases earlier in this outbreak in Wellington - the entire country was under Level 4 restrictions at the time - and a single case in Palmerston North that's currently still sick (and recently was admitted to hospital), but is now quarantined doesn't appear to have spread the infection at all, so that area remains at Level 2. And yeah, as Sphyx mentions, a very likely false positive in BOP (I don't think it's 100% confirmed as such yet - in particular the locations of interest for it are still listed - but it's looking very, very likely to be false positive).

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