Coronavirus / How New Zealand Covid success made it a laboratory for the world

Wellington: On one hand, while the whole world is badly affected by the corona epidemic, on the other hand, New Zealand has overcome this and set an example in front of the world. Even after a year has passed in the whole world, the corona epidemic is not taking its name. In many countries, both the people and governments are worried about its second and in some its third wave. Talking about India, for the first time in the last one year, more than one lakh coronas have been infected in the country in one day. This situation is not only for India but also for other countries of the world.

Talking about New Zealand, only 2507 cases have been reported so far and almost as many patients have been cured. At the same time, only 26 patients have died due to corona infection here, which is a good thing. Now the question arises that how has New Zealand succeeded in curbing this epidemic. Let me tell you that even last year, when this epidemic was taking a form of havoc, New Zealand saw a tremendous decline in its cases. New Zealand was the first to seal its borders in view of its danger. The rule of living in quarantine for an infected person was also implemented well in New Zealand. Not only this, New Zealand was the first country to open all offices and shopping malls by removing the lockdown. Even now he has done something similar.

Seeing the risk of corona in New Zealand, took the help of genome sequencing and epidemiology. Today with the help of this technology, New Zealand has emerged as the laboratory of the world. To halt the pace of Corona, the New Zealand government not only detected its infected but also detected those who came in contact with them. Subsequently, through genome sequencing, experts were able to gain insight into where the corona spread rapidly. He was treated with quarantine. Sequential lockdown was also put in place in the transition areas. In view of this, with the help and advice of experts, the government formulated a further strategy and this was overcome before its community transition could come. Let me also tell you here that no new cases of infection have been reported in New Zealand since last few days.

It is also necessary to tell you here that genome sequencing was also done in America and Britain but it was not done in every case, so cases are still increasing there. Talking about India, only in one percent of cases, genome sequencing has been resorted to. Genome scienti fi cation scientist doctor Gemma Jeonghagen says that the corona virus has about 30,000 genomes. Whenever someone is infected by it, the nature of the virus also changes. Scientists create a family tree of viruses with the help of its variants. It also detects small mutations in the virus. This shows how the virus infection is spreading. Once the mutation of the virus is known, the vaccine changes based on it, the effect of which is clearly seen in New Zealand.