Test numbers in New Zealand are going up but new cases flattening or going down. On Thursday the 2nd of April there was a record high of 89 new cases, on Friday there were 71, on Saturday 82, on Sunday 89 again, yesterday 67 and today 54,, also in the last 24 hours 65 people recovered. So for the first day overall numbers went down. It could flare up again, but officials are looking hopeful.
Last week, David Clark, our Minister of Health, was spotted driving to a mountain bike trail (which is not recommended in lock down). Yesterday he admitted to driving his family 20 kilometres from their house to Doctor's Point for a beach walk and offered Jacinda Ardern his resignation. Ardern demoted him, making him the lowest ranked Cabinet officer, but said it would be too disruptive to sack him. At the press briefing today the journalists asked most of their questions about that. Ardern got increasingly tight lippped. He made a mistake and he is paying for that mistake. Over and over she said it. Until today the media briefings have been 1.00 pm, Ashley Bloomfield, Director General of Health - he has become a weird cult figure with people admitting crushes on him. He's very straight looking with large glasses and careful hair. And then later on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Today they combined for the first time. I have been watching the media briefings avidly, they're live video streamed on RNZ. Perhaps I'll remember that, the video stream starting with the podiums empty as the news is read, then the officials coming in, the way the sign language interpreters' faces move as they sign the speech. Looking at how fluid the language, as English is, evolving to absorb new words and concepts, ideas are changing all the time. I think I know commissioner, and protect, and Level 4. I must see if I can figure out the sign for Covid-19.
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