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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has also asked Kiwis to keep a diary of their daily movements, AAP reports.
Ms Ardern believes the homespun idea could help the country’s contact-tracers with their work.
“I would ask New Zealanders to think about doing that. Just keeping a quick note of where you’ve been, and who you’ve been with,” Ms Ardern said.
“It will not only help them, it will help us.
“If you imagine, even asking someone six days later to account every movement over a period of time, it’s an incredibly hard task.
“So I would ask New Zealanders to have new practises, new things that they do at the end of the day.
“The better that we are able to do … the sooner we can move through the down the alert levels and the sooner life feels more normal.”
More on New Zealand now, which looks likely to announce a lockdown overhaul on Monday, after more than a week of low Covid-19 new cases.
On Monday, the Cabinet will meet to decide whether to end four weeks of level four restrictions and downscale to a level three lockdown, which mirrors many of Australia’s restrictions.
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