The Government has announced the next phase of its Covid-19
response plan. The elimination strategy and Alert Level System is
ending, and New Zealand will instead look to co-exist with the
virus and move forward with a highly vaccinated population under a
new Traffic Light System (known as the "Covid-19 Protective
Framework"), expected to commence early December.
The Traffic Light System has three colours – red, orange,
and green. Each region will be set a colour which will be actively
monitored and possibly changed, depending on the risk of Covid-19
spreading in the community, as well as vaccination and
hospitalisation rates for that region. The Government has made it
clear that the lower the vaccination rates in a region, the more
likely it will be designated as red.
