New Zealand recorded 41 new cases on Tuesday, another growth after 35 on Monday and 21 on both Sunday and Saturday.
Those contacts will all need to be followed up, isolated and tested but under-resourcing in New Zealand's health system will mean almost half have had no contact from contact tracers.
COVID-19 modeller and government adviser Rodney Jones said continued growth of cases would challenge the government's elimination strategy. "Or you get a little bit stuck you still producing those 15 to 20 cases a day so it's contained but you're not on the path back to zero."Ms Ardern said she won't be budged from her elimination strategy until vaccination rates were higher."That's the way that we have managed to have a larger number of days without restrictions not had our people gravely ill and hospitalised and unfortunately losing their lives.""Absolutely we can get back to zero.
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