The secret to the success of New Zealand in fighting the COVID Pandemic. 

The pandemic peaked in April then slowing down eventually. The lockdown eased slowly to level 3 on 27 and completely lifted on 13 May.

It’s the strategy of the test! Test! Test! And tracing tracked cases efficiently

It followed the mantra of mass testing as well as to locate coronavirus patients and follow their trail to check for whatever community transmission took place. With its capacity to test 8000 people in a day, it tested a total of 126,000 for a mere population of 48 lakhs, for comparison that’s exactly the population of Surat!

It also used a specially designed app to keep a track of places visited by corona positive patients before they were isolated. With the NZ COVID tracer app, the government kept a digital diary of movements of people, they were asked to scan a barcode outside all public places. It was used to inform all places visited by someone suffering from the pandemic and use this to track any transmissions.