# With No New Cases in 17 Days, New Zealand is Now Covid-19-Free

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**Created:** [June 8, 2020, 12:45pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/with-no-new-cases-in-17-days-new-zealand-is-now-covid-19-free/90787 "2020-06-08T12:45:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 12:45pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/with-no-new-cases-in-17-days-new-zealand-is-now-covid-19-free/90787/1 "2020-06-08T12:45:07Z")

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Long-time Slashdot reader [heretic108](https://slashdot.org/~heretic108) writes:

_Following its “go early and go hard” lockdown regime, New Zealand’s active COVID-19 case count [has now reached zero](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/121752568/coronavirus-new-zealand-is-covid19free-last-remaining-active-case-has-recovered). Stringent border quarantine rules [remain in place](https://apnews.com/9503e13b40d8815e107e9891da1bfdcb), however, and New Zealand is just now starting to count the economic cost._

New Zealand has now marked 17 days in a row without a new case, according to the article. Throughout a population of 4.8 million, to date there have been just 1,504 “confirmed and probable cases,” and the death toll remains at 22.

“Laboratories across the country have completed 294,848 tests.”