Hon Dr AYESHA VERRALL (Minister for Food Safety): I'm pleased to be able to contribute to this debate, because it is my honest opinion that New Zealand is the safest place on earth when it comes to COVID-19. We have achieved this through a deliberate strategy of going hard and early, and in relation to the discussion about the recent move to alert level 3 in Auckland and level 2 elsewhere in the country, the Government has been safe, proactive, and evidence-based in its measures.