Hon CHRIS HIPKINS: It is a great time to be a New Zealander. As we look around the world, we can see the devastation that COVID-19 has inflicted on other countries. We look at Italy, we look at the UK and the US, we look across Europe, and we see what an impact COVID-19 could have had on our country if we hadn't gone hard and gone early, as we did as a country. We banded together as a people by staying apart and staying at home. We are now one of the best-placed countries in the world to recover economically, because of the sacrifices that New Zealanders have made and because we have driven COVID-19 out of our country. We didn't do it as a Government; we did it as a team of 5 million. I want to pay tribute to every New Zealander and the sacrifices that every New Zealander made during that lockdown period.