Decisive action, going hard and going early, helped us stamp out the worst of the virus. Yes, we had the insight, those vital extra weeks, to look at the agonising spread and loss of life around the world, and we devised a plan for our country and for our people. We executed that plan together, and we must continue to execute that plan. Modelling provided publicly on the eve of the lockdown suggested New Zealand was on a similar trajectory to the likes of those places overseas who have seen the virus escalate, and that our cases could have grown to more than 10,000 without the actions we've taken together—and, of course, that would cause countless deaths. Today, we have had fewer than 1,500, cases, and more than 1,200 people have recovered.