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Sailing for the America’s Cup will resume on Wednesday, while cricket, netball and rugby will finally be able to put tickets on sale for their big events on Sunday, Stuff reports.

Ardern says he felt “absolutely” the first earthquake. His first thought was “Bugger it,” he says.

Left Allan he says, “He texted me to make sure I was going to do my job. 2.29h! ”

Minister of Emergency Management Left Allan talks again about the response to the tsunami. She says the call to cancel the alert was made when it became apparent that “there was no longer a risk to life.”

It faces questions about the notification system, specifically the civil defense text alerts sent to people’s phones. These were received by thousands of people at different times, but Allan says it is not yet known if this could have been improved.

“These goals are strictly objective and, again, have been based on the science available to those most at risk of losing their lives. This was not to be a carte blanche notification for everyone.”

He says he is largely satisfied that people know what to do, as a result of the overall management strategy, but that the government “would try to test the stress of the system over the next few days.”

Both she and the prime minister Jacinda Ardern acknowledge that the first two of the three earthquakes were “disconnected,” one recorded on the east coast of the north island and another near the Kermadec Islands, which require different responses.

Allan says there have been no reports of relative or substantial damage as a result of the earthquakes. Now that the alert has been canceled, government teams can examine it more closely, she says.

Ardern says it was the right decision to lift the three-day closure in Auckland in early February before re-establishing level three restrictions at the end of the month.

Ardern is asked if he will apologize in case L, a coronavirus case that says the government did not tell him to isolate himself and that Ardern’s comments about his case caused her to be harassed on social media.

Ardern says now (as he did before) that he will not apologize, but that it was never his intention to create a stack.

Another exception: on Sundays, religious services can only be held with less than 100 attendees.

Ardern interrupts Bloomfield’s questioning of invoking the Health Act to say that New Zealanders’ requirements according to their response to the coronavirus “are generally very well understood”.

She says she doesn’t believe anyone who has broken level three restrictions set out to do wrong, and that she has seen no benefit in continuing a “come and go” in individual cases over the past week.

Ardern adds that there have always been breaches of the New Zealand closure. “Overall, the country has gone exceptionally well, but we have never had an experience that has been perfect.”

There are some exceptions to the lifting of restriction levels, says the Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield.

People who attended City Fitness Gym (the site of the most recent significant exhibition event a week ago) and who have been reported by Auckland regional public health teams to be more casual, close, or casual contact of a confirmed case.

These people should be isolated in their home, presented for medical tests and subjected to a time and place indicated by a health doctor and remain isolated until they receive more information.

Bloomfield clarifies that this is a “specific legal requirement,” which binds these people under section 70 of the Health Act.

Ardern: “We may not be in the devastating position that much of the rest of the world finds itself in, but an elimination strategy may still seem like hard work. It is completely natural to feel tired. Covid is hard work for everyone. Thank you for moving forward once again. “

Ardern says the government’s response has been overly cautious given the unpredictable and highly transmissible nature of the coronavirus variant in the UK.

“Level three provided us with an extra layer of security as we tackled the unknowns and reduced the risk.”

Auckland will move to the second tier at 6am on Sunday. The rest of the country will move to level one at a time.

Jacinda Ardern he begins by pointing out the case numbers in France and other countries: “I know that in New Zealand we don’t take anything for granted, especially because many of us know people or have people we love abroad.”

She says she accepts that New Zealand’s elimination strategy is difficult for people, from losing jobs to canceling school camps. “Covid has taken on a lot of things in many ways, but it will get better.”

She says she will publish a “roadmap” in the coming weeks that will show how the launch of immunization will affect Aotearoa’s Covid response next year.

Left Allan says the civil defense’s response to the threat of a tsunami was underway before dawn: “I want to thank all those who did exactly the right thing.”

Jacinda Ardern: “It’s hard not to have the feeling that our country is unlucky when you have an earthquake, a tsunami and a pandemic in one day …

“We’ve had our share of difficult times in this country, but within that we’ve always been blessed with amazing people working on our emergency response system.”

Ardern praises the work of the Minister of Emergency Management Left Allan and gives her an update.

Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield will give an update on the Covid-19 response later.