Based on expert public health advice, on 27 January we deployed public health nurses at Christchurch and Auckland international airports to meet all flights from mainland China, to provide advice and check anyone displaying symptoms. Those measures are ongoing. On 28 January, Cabinet met for the first time this year and made the novel coronavirus a notifiable disease under the Health Act—that means we have all the appropriate public health powers in place to deal with the COVID-19 if and when it arrives in New Zealand.