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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has meanwhile addressed the country regarding the state of emergency declared there today:
Giving a statement to New Zealand’s parliament, Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister, told lawmakers that a state of emergency had been invoked for the country, calling the measures “tools of last resort,” and exhorted New Zealanders to take an impending four week period of total self-isolation “deadly seriously.”
On the question of mixed messages, Scott Morrison says, confusingly:
The most urgent message that we’re getting for people to stay home is to stay home if you’re sick.
That is the most important urgent message.
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