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# We Should Be at Level 1 by Now
- URL: https://goodoil.news/we-should-be-at-level-1-by-now/
- Published: 2020-05-31T00:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-05-30T09:35:18.000Z
- Author: Guest Post
- Tags: COVID-19, Health, NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:00

**Simon Thornley**  
[covidplanb.co.nz](http://www.covidplanb.co.nz/media-and-politics/thornley-we-should-be-at-level-1-by-now/?ref=goodoil.news)

> Cabinet is set to look at whether New Zealand should move to level 1 on June 22, but pressure is mounting to move earlier, with Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters saying it should have already happened.

> Dr **Simon Thornley**, senior lecturer of public health at Auckland University, told Mike Hosking we should be at level 1 by now.

> “A second wave is extremely unlikely.

> “Japan have opened up and they haven’t had a second wave and they have a of things against them that we don’t have, like densely populated cities.”

> Thornley also says a travel bubble between New Zealand and Australia is now safe.

> [Thornley: we should be at Level 1 by now](https://www.covidplanb.co.nz/media-and-politics/thornley-we-should-be-at-level-1-by-now/?ref=goodoil.news)

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