New Zealand is close to wiping out covid-19 – can it return to normal?

By Alice Klein

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New Zealand is tantalisingly close to wiping out covid-19, but does that mean that life there will be able to go back to normal?

New Zealand was swift to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, introducing some of the strictest lockdown measures in the world on 25 March, when the country had recorded only 205 cases and no deaths.

Under the lockdown, schools, universities and almost all businesses were shut, people could only leave their homes for essential reasons …