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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-138/
- Published: 2020-05-27T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-05-27T02:50:25.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: COVID-19, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:00

> Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has broken rank with Labour over coronavirus restrictions, saying **the country should be at level 1 now.**

> Peters also said that the trans-Tasman bubble, allowing quarantine-free travel, should also already be operational.

> \[…\]Peters told Newstalk ZB on Wednesday morning that it was his party’s position that New Zealand should be at alert level 1 by now, meaning almost no internal restrictions on normal life.  
>  
> [stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300021490/coronavirus-winston-peters-says-nz-should-already-be-in-level-1-with-transtasman-bubble](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300021490/coronavirus-winston-peters-says-nz-should-already-be-in-level-1-with-transtasman-bubble?ref=goodoil.news)

> “We’ve been in compulsory lockdown for far too long,” Peters said.

> \[…\] He said the enemy at this point was not Covid-19, but instead the economic devastation wrought by the disease and the response to it.

> He said this view had been made clear to Labour in Cabinet, but it didn’t have the numbers to make it a reality.  
>  
> [stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300021490/coronavirus-winston-peters-says-nz-should-already-be-in-level-1-with-transtasman-bubble](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300021490/coronavirus-winston-peters-says-nz-should-already-be-in-level-1-with-transtasman-bubble?ref=goodoil.news)

For the last five days in a row, no new COVID-19 cases have been reported by the Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield.

Over the entire crisis, there have been only **21** COVID-**related** deaths which is not the same as death caused by COVID-19\. What it actually means is that people died **with** COVID ( usually along with other life-threatening illnesses)

No-one is currently in the hospital for coronavirus related treatment.