00:00And so today, I can announce that Cabinet has agreed we will now move to Level 1
00:06to get our economy fully open again, and we will start almost immediately.
00:12Today there are no active cases in New Zealand.
00:15We have tested almost 40,000 people for COVID-19 in the past 17 days, and none have tested positive.
00:22We have had no one in hospital for COVID-19 for 12 days.
00:26It's been 40 days since the last case of community transmission, 22 days since that person finished their self-isolation.
00:35Our team of 5 million has both sacrificed and achieved a huge amount in just under 11 weeks.
00:43As the world reckoned with and continues to reckon with, a virus that went from obscurity at the start of
00:49the year
00:49to a global pandemic that will linger, with second waves a constant reality.
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