26 Mar 2021

Concerns about complacency a year on from lockdown

From Morning Report, 8:36 am on 26 March 2021

Doctors and nurses who were preparing to face down Covid-19 as the lockdown hit, worry about complacency one year on.

It's a year this week since the country went into level four lockdown, as the virus surfaced and was already spreading, in communities all over the country.

The work they did had a lasting impact but they worry that because many New Zealanders haven't seen the worst of the virus, they forget how serious it is.

Health correspondent Rowan Quinn reports.

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