‘Welcome. We don’t usually welcome people by locking them up.’Jacinda Ardern in her Beehive office. Photo: Justin Giovannetti The prime minister discusses the crunch decisions as the coronavirus threat spread, what comes next, and the ‘transformational’ idea, with Spinoff political editor Justin Giovannetti.
Jacinda Ardern was watching coronavirus in China with growing concern in January as developments were still largely limited to foreign news reports. The scale of the virus and its speed were commanding the prime minister’s attention. On February 1, it became clear to her that New Zealand could not avoid Covid-19.
The next day, Ardern announced that […]
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