Covid-19 coronavirus: Truckies promise to deliver the goods

Name: Focus Live: How NZ's coronavirus lockdown will be managed
Uploaded: 2020-03-23T17:14:56+13:00
Duration: 486 s
Description: New Zealand's coronavirus lockdown will be managed by a leadership team of some of the country's top officials. That team is Dr Ashley Bloomfield, Director-General of Health, Sarah Stuart-Black, Director of Civil Defence Emergency Management, Mike Bush, Commissioner of Police, and Dr Peter Crabtree.

By Matthew Theunissen

NZ Herald·

23 Mar, 2020 05:45 PM4 mins to read

New Zealand's coronavirus lockdown will be managed by a leadership team of some of the country's top officials. That team is Dr Ashley Bloomfield, Director-General of Health, Sarah Stuart-Black, Director of Civil Defence Emergency Management, Mike Bush, Commissioner of Police, and Dr Peter Crabtree.

From RNZ

Leaders from some of the country's essential industries are giving an assurance they will able to provide the goods and services to get people through the Covid-19 lockdown.

At 11.59pm on Wednesday, New Zealand will go into full lockdown as the country moves into level 4 of the Covid-19 alert system.

Only services deemed to be essential to keep the country going will continue to operate.

These include the health sector, key public services, transport providers and food producers.

• Covid19.govt.nz: The Government's official Covid-19 advisory website

Nick Leggett from the Road Transport Forum called trucking the "good cholesterol of the economy" and was an industry that would work together.

"The industry will step up, as it always does at times of crisis. We saw that after the Kaikōura earthquake and the Canterbury earthquakes.

"This time obviously is quite different to that - it's a nationwide crisis that we're facing and a challenge for all households."

Chief executive of the Road Transport Forum Nick Leggett says the sector will provision the nation, just as it did for Kaikoura after the quakes. File photo / Janine Balbergen

Key over the coming days will be communication as the country's trucking fleet works to prioritise goods that are most in need, he said.

"This is an adaptive industry - it has to be because there are many crises and lots of changes all the time.