Forecast Story: We’ve mastered the health response, now for the economy

Firstly, the good news: the public health results of New Zealand’s COVID-19 lockdown have been exceptional, despite some issues at the border that saw some people get out of isolation early without being tested. The return to Alert Level 1, less than 2½ months after the country went into lockdown, was far quicker than anyone dared to hope for as the global pandemic escalated so quickly back in March.