Our Government will continue with a carefully balanced plan for dealing with COVID-19. We want to keep New Zealand moving forward whilst also protecting people as much as we are able to. We are entering into a new phase of our COVID-19 response, one where the response will be a more devolved response, but people will be needing to take more individual responsibility for keeping themselves safe from COVID-19. Businesses will be making more decisions at a local level about how they continue to operate as we see an increase in the number of cases.