24 Feb 2022

New Zealand on the verge of Phase 3 Omicron response

From Lately, 10:40 pm on 24 February 2022

In less than two hours New Zealand will enter phase three of its Omicron response. It is almost two years to the day when the first Covid-19 case was reported here on February 28 2020. Since then we've had a national state of emergency and an alert level system. RNZ's health correspondent Rowan Quinn talks through what to expect under phase three.