Due to the untimely passing of the former Director General due to suspicious circumstances concerning certain terrorists, a new Director General of the Police is needed, the director General will cooperate with the governor's office and the mayors to ensure the security of the province, candidates will be thoroughly judged by our administration until admission.

As I have deemed them capable and righteous I hereby appoint u/FeldmarschallJager as the Director General of the Police for the Red Province, may the province know peace and stability under his watch.

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>^(Lets burn the bridges that have brought us to our kneesLets find a way to controlOur own hope and dreams,)

Press Conference

Start Time; (missed the start dammit RNZ)

• Update on COVID response
• Status update
  • To date we have identified 29 community cases with the January Omicron cluster
  • Source Investigations are continuing - yet to establish firm links to known border case
  • Whole Genome Sequencing may make it different to ever do so
  • Nearly 60% have had booster, '1 in 5' 5-11 year olds.
• Time is of the essence with Omicron. Boosters and basic infection protection can slow it down. Go and get boosted if it has been 4 months since your last dose
• 73% of eligible people over 65 have now been boosted.
• Basic infection control
  • Hand Washing, Distancing, Masking
  • Enhance mask wearing protocals
    • Masks must now be worn at food drink, close proximity businesses, events and gatherings. Existing exception for eating/drinking and exercising. Wear when entering or when going to the bathroom
    • Won't apply to non-customer facing workplaces, swimming pools, and gathering with the exclusive use of a premises.
    • Encourage all workplaces to consider policies to protect your workforces
    • Requiring face covering be an actual mask; no more scarves, bandanas or t-shirts pulled up.
    • All workers legally mandated to be vaccinated must now wear a medical grade mask (type 2R or Level 2+). Includes the blue medical grade masks
    • All school students year 4 and up must now wear a mask, including on MoE funding transport and public transport.
• Science has changed, so have we changed.
• Update on the 3 phases we will likely experience tomorrow.
• Intend to use RAT for critical workforces, critical supply chains.
  • Can use proof of a negative RAT during period of isolate to return to work.
  • Apply it to those who are critical.
• PCR tests are best. We need their accuracy. Increased capacity to 60,000 per day, 78,000 at surge rate for ~7 days.
• In phase 2, RAT will be more common. We have 83m tests on order, 4.6m in country. Confirmed delivery of 14.6m over the next 5 weeks, awaiting delivery sc

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>^(Oh, baby, let the bad times roll)

Key Points

• New Cases 215
  • Locations;
    • Auckland 181
    • Waikato 18
    • Northland 3
    • BOP 12
• 1 Historical case in Canterbury
  • Total cases; 7,484
  • Recovered; 2,462
  • Active Cases; 5022
  • Unlinked/To be linked cases last 14 days: 920
  • 74 of 202 cases reported yesterday have exposure events
• In Hospital; 87
  • Yesterday; 88 (+ 2 still being assessed)
  • Change; -1
• Cases in ICU/HDU: 8
  • Yesterday; 6
  • Change; +2
• Tests Processed last 24 hours:
  • Swabs taken in Auckland:
• Total first and second vaccines administered to date (percentage of eligible people): 7,386,242: 3,853,592 first doses (92%); 3,532,650 second doses (84%)
• Total first and second vaccines administered yesterday: 18,880: 6,496 first doses; 12,384 second doses

Current Alert Levels;

Auckland; 3 Step Transition Plan

1. (From 11:59pm Tuesday 5 October) Auckland will remain in Alert Level 3 but several key changes will occur. People will be able to connect with loved ones OUTDOORS with no more than two households at a time, up to a maximum of 10 people; early childhood education will return for all; and people can move around Auckland for recreation such as beach visits and hunting.
2. (From 11:59pm 9 November) At step two retail will open their doors, with the usual measures of wearing facemasks and keeping up physical distancing; public facilities such as libraries and zoos will open; and the number of people who can meet OUTDOORS will increase to 25.
3. (Date TBC) Step three will bring back those higher risk settings. Hospitality will open – seated, separated and with a limit of 50; close contact businesses like hairdressers will also open with mask use and physical distancing; and gatherings will also then extend to 50.

Rest of NZ; Level 2

All of New Zealand will move to the new COVID Protection Framework **at 11:59 PM on