Covid DEATH COMES to New Zealand
… Covid death rates have reached record highs in New Zealand
… despite high levels of vaccination
… the country’s current mortality rate is twice as high as the U.K.’s
… four times higher than the U.S.
… Once held up as evidence that it is possible to suppress the virus
… the nation nicknamed a ‘hermit kingdom’
… the population was largely vaccinated, with eight in 10 people now double-jabbed
… Since then, the virus has spread
… Experts told that previously low levels of infection in New Zealand due to strict Covid curbs
… is behind the high fatality rate now
… only delayed “inevitable” infections that could have built-up immunity
… five people per million in New Zealand were dying with Covid every day
… up by a third from the previous high of 3.68 in March
… The U.K. is recording two deaths per million people each day
… despite up to one in 15 people being infected
… U.S. is suffering just one Covid fatality for every million people
… the number of deaths being high despite vaccination and the mildness of Omicron does raise serious questions about the effectiveness of vaccination