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After enduring a near-seven week lockdown, New Zealand eventually settled into a comfortable lull. Against the odds, as winter closed in the country was Covid-19 free for the first time since February 28. New Zealand had more than 100 days of freedom at alert level 1. Then new community cases were confirmed, seemingly out of nowhere. Hagen Hopkins/Getty On August 9, a Sunday just shy of six months since the first case was confirmed, New Zealand marked 100 days without community transmission of the virus – joining a handful of countries, many much smaller and more remote than New Zealand, to achieve such a feat. ....
Before we knew it was a pandemic On a Tuesday morning, just over a year ago, shrimp vendor Wei Guixian went to work. She felt tired, but persevered and went about her day selling live seafood at Wuhan’s Huanan Seafood Market. She dismissed her lethargy and put it down to the seasonal flu that she catches every year. But for peace of mind, Wei walked to the local health clinic for an assessment and an injection. The next day, her condition deteriorated. She made another trip to another hospital to get a second opinion. She left with a prescription and no helpful answers. ....