Hon CHRIS HIPKINS (Minister for COVID-19 Response): I do want to acknowledge that any alert level change has an impact for a wide variety of businesses, community organisations, and people. Our Government makes the decision around alert level escalation based on public health criteria that continues to guide the decision making. We acknowledge that those decisions have a significant impact for people, but we have to continue to seek to eliminate COVID-19 from our community. Those businesses, those organisations would suffer far worse consequences if we found ourselves in the situation of other countries that have not contained COVID-19 and ended up with widespread community outbreaks and rolling lockdowns.