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Royal Commission of Inquiry into COVID-19 Lessons Learned
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Main Report
- Part One: Preliminaries
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Part Two: Looking back
- Introduction
- 1.0 A snapshot of Aotearoa New Zealand's pandemic experience
- 1.1 Timeline of key events
- 1.2 Aotearoa New Zealand's COVID-19 experience
- 1.3 Some key international comparisons
- 1.4 Aotearoa New Zealand's pandemic experience - Endnotes
- 2.1 All-of-government preparations and response
- 2.2 Context: the state of Aotearoa New Zealand’s pandemic preparedness and emergency management arrangements before COVID-19
- 2.3 What happened: governance and decision making structures
- 2.4 What happened: pandemic strategy and tools
- 2.5 What happened: public information and communication
- 2.6 Our assessment
- 2.7 What we learned looking back
- 2.8 Endnotes
- 3.1 Lockdowns
- 3.2 What happened
- 3.3 Our assessment
- 3.4 What we learned looking back
- 3.5 Endnotes
- 4.1 Keeping the country closed: border restrictions and quarantine
- 4.2 What happened
- 4.3 Our assessment
- 4.4 What we learned looking back
- 4.5 Endnotes
- 5.1 The health system response
- 5.2 Health system preparedness
- 5.3 What happened: activating public health and infection control measures in response to COVID-19
- 5.4 What happened: preparing the wider health system to cope with COVID-19 cases
- 5.5 What happened: provision of non-COVID-19-related healthcare during the pandemic
- 5.6 Our assessment of the outcomes and impacts
- 5.7 What we learned looking back
- 5.8 Endnotes
- 6.1 Economic and social impacts and responses
- 6.2 What happened: economic impact and responses
- 6.3 Our assessment: economic impacts and responses
- 6.4 What happened: social sector impacts and responses
- 6.5 What happened: social impacts and responses
- 6.6 The social and economic 'long tail'
- 6.7 What we learned looking back
- 6.8 Endnotes
- 7.1 Vaccination
- 7.2 What happened
- 7.3 Our assessment
- 7.4 What we learned looking back
- 7.5 Endnotes
- 8.1 Mandatory measures
- 8.2 What happened: testing, contact tracing, and masking requirements
- 8.3 Our assessment: testing, contact tracing and mask requirements
- 8.4 What happened: Vaccination requirements
- 8.5 Our assessment: Vaccination requirements
- 8.6 Controversy over compulsory measures
- 8.7 What we learned looking back
- 8.8 Lessons - Endnotes
- 9.1 Taking stock
- 9.2 The story of the response
- 9.3 Moving on
- Part Three: Moving Forward
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Appendices
- A: An overview of legislation, emergency plans, systems and structures supporting the COVID-19 response
- A.1 Legislation
- A.2 Emergency plans
- A.3 All-of-government systems and structures
- A.4 Human rights frameworks
- A.5 Endnotes
- B: An epidemiological overview of COVID-19 in Aotearoa New Zealand
- B.1 Introduction
- B.2 Data and methods
- B.3 Cases, hospitalisations and deaths across 2020 to 2022
- B.4 Stringency of public health and social measures
- B.5 Vaccination rates
- B.6 Additional COVID-19 deaths and YLLs had New Zealand not pursued an elimination strategy, or not vaccinated
- B.7 Close ups of 2020 and 2021: cases and hospitalisations, alert levels and key policy events
- B.8 Case, hospitalisation and death rates by socio-demographic groups
- B.9 Endnotes
- C: Pandemic scenarios
- C.1 Purpose and audience
- C.2 Generic or ‘Agent X’ pandemic scenarios
- C.3 Examples of future pandemic scenarios
- C.4 Endnotes
- D: Vaccine coverage and population immunity – key considerations for lifting pandemic measures
- D.1 Purpose
- D.2 What do we mean by population immunity? And why does it matter?
- D.3 Data inputs to estimate population immunity
- D.4 In summary
- D.5 Implications for the next pandemic
- D.6 Supplementary information
- D.7 Endnotes
- Glossary
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Summary Report
- Commissioner Foreword
- Part One: Introduction
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Part Two: Lessons learned from Looking Back
- 5 - A snapshot of Aotearoa New Zealand's pandemic experience
- 6 - All-of-government preparations and response
- 7 - Lockdowns
- 8 - Keeping the country closed: border restrictions and quarantine
- 9 - The health system response
- 10 - Economic and Social impacts and responses
- 11 - Vaccination
- 12 - Mandatory measures
- Part Three: Moving Forward
- Help and support
- Endnotes
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Experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Acknowledgement
- Foreword
- About the Royal Commission of Inquiry
- About this report
- Who we heard from
- Our approach
- One pandemic, many unique experiences
- Public health response
- The economic response and impacts on businesses
- Impacts on our society and communities
- Education during the pandemic
- The experiences of iwi and Māori
- Aotearoa New Zealand’s overall pandemic response
- Additional information
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