新西兰宣布打赢社区防疫战并降低警戒级别_BEC初级作文

新西兰宣布打赢社区防疫战并降低警戒级别

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks during a news conference prior to the anniversary of the mosque attacks that took place the prior year in Christchurch, New Zealand, March 13, 2020. REUTERS/Martin Hunter

Ardern further explained the disease is "currently" eliminated in New Zealand, but that new cases may continue to appear: "So as we have said elimination means we may well reach zero, but we may well then have small numbers of cases coming up again," she said. "That doesn't mean we have failed, it just means that we are in the position to have that zero tolerance approach to have a very aggressive management of those cases and keep those numbers low and fading out again."

阿德恩进一步解释说，新冠肺炎“目前”在新西兰被消灭了，但新病例可能会继续出现：“就像我们说的，消灭疫情意味着病例数量趋于零，但我们很可能还会有少量病例出现。这不意味着我们失败了，只是意味着我们可以对病毒采取零容忍的态度，可以积极地管控病例，让病例数量保持在低位，然后再逐渐消失。”

New Zealand lowered to Alert Level Three on Monday at 11:59 pm. It had previously declared a state of emergency and gone on lockdown March 25. Ardern fully stressed that despite the updated alert level, the country cannot yet return to "pre-COVID-19 life. That day will come but it is not here yet."