100 days without COVID-19: how New Zealand got rid of a virus

100 days without COVID-19: how New Zealand got rid of a virus that keeps spreading across the world: New Zealand relied on three types of measures to get rid of the virus:

ongoing border controls to stop COVID-19 from entering the country

a lockdown and physical distancing to stop community transmission

case-based controls using testing, contact tracing and quarantine.

Collectively, these measures have achieved low case numbers and deaths compared with high-income countries in Europe and North America that pursued a suppression strategy.