Crazy world

We were warned not to become complacent.  We were told that it's not a case of if, but a case of when we get our next community transmitted COVID case.  I never expected it to arrive so soon after I opted to discontinue recording the daily stats after 100 days without community transmission.  Today would have been day 102.

At a little before 9.30pm this evening there was an unscheduled and unexpected media conference.  The announcement by the PM that 4 members of the same family from South Auckland had tested positive for COVID was a shock.  At this stage there are no clues as to where it was picked up and with the threat of a significant community outbreak the decision has been made to move Auckland to a Level 3 lockdown ie pretty much everything except 'essential services' must close.  It's a short lockdown - at the moment - just 3 days.  Time will tell whether this will be enough.  The rest of the country has been raised to Alert level 2.

So, after a day of zeros yesterday, today's COVID count is 5 new cases - 1 in managed isolation and 4 of unknown origin.  With no recoveries, the active case total is now 26.