COMMENT:
We are officially in Covid-19 alert level 1!
Restrictions continue to ease more than 10 weeks after New Zealand went into lockdown and as we wake today, we return to, for the most part, our normal lives.
But one thing that has become habit since Covid-19 was thrust into our lives - and something I think we should retain well into the future - is how Kiwis have become more conscious of their own and others' hygiene practices.
As we enter stores, use Eftpos machines and before we leave a new place, we take advantage of the hand sanitisers and disinfectant wipes provided. We carry around travel-sized bottles of sanitiser, leave wipes in the glove boxes of our cars and wash our hands or use our at-home bottles of sanitisers as soon as we return home after being out and about.