1. After the virus outbreak, 90% of New Zealanders want to work at home.

A survey released on May 30 by the University of Otago found that many people in the country worked as efficiently at home as they did in their offices during the epidemic blockade, with nearly 90 percent unwilling to return to their traditional workplaces.

A total of 2,500 New Zealanders took part in the survey, 73% of whom felt that working from home was "as efficient or more efficient" than working in the company, and 89% wanted to continue working at home after the blockade period or to work part-time at home. In addition, 66% of the people think it is easy to adapt to work at home, while 82% think they have the conditions to finish the work at home.

2. New Zealand begins to close the community COVID-19 testing center.

In the last eight days, New Zealand has received only one new case of COVID-19 and there is currently only one active case. Therefore, community-based assessment centers (CBAC) have begun to close or reduce working hours.

Some district health committees have begun to advise people to find a general practitioner again for Covid-19 swabs.

"In the past few weeks, the Public Health Department has conducted major tests, and we are satisfied with the monitoring data. This data shows that the prevalence of COVID-19 is now extremely low among all of the New Zealand population. "

The Ministry of Health is still finalizing its observation and surveillance testing strategy, which will be reviewed by the Cabinet next week.

3. Despite the epidemic, house prices in New Zealand are still rising.

New Zealand's COVID-19 epidemic has not curbed house prices, with a real estate company setting a record for its asking price in seven regions.

Data from realestate.co.nz shows that although the new housing supply decreased in May, it is still higher than usual in winter.

Gisborne, Manawatu-Whanganui, and the central region of the North Island saw the largest increase in average real estate prices.

The average asking price in all regions of New Zealand rose, except the Central Otago Lake region, where prices fell 3.7% to 972,073 New Zealand dollars. Realestate.co.nz said that despite a drop in house prices, the average house price in the region is still the highest in New Zealand.

Vanessa Taylor, a spokesman for realestate.co.nz, said that most sellers still expect high prices for their houses because of high prices in seven regions.

4. The New Zealand government may announce a move to level 1 alert on June 8.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that the cabinet might be able to raise the alert to level 1 early on June 8.

According to the previous plan, the cabinet had hoped to consider the alert level before June 22, but Adrian said on Radio New Zealand's morning program this morning that the government could now consider changing the alert status of the epidemic earlier because the number of medical cases was dropping.

She said that New Zealand would still have a period of transition, but by June 10, the country might reach level 1 alert.

5. Singapore Airlines resumes New Zealand's passenger service.

Singapore Airlines announced that regular passenger services (flights) to Auckland and Christchurch would resume from Tuesday, June 9. Auckland would serve twice a week while Christchurch would serve once a week. This is New Zealand Airlines' first scheduled flight to New Zealand since March after Singapore Airlines stopped its passenger flights to New Zealand due to the closure of the New Zealand border because of the COVID-19 epidemic.

6. The second wave of unemployment is coming!

Economists warned that New Zealand might be at the beginning of a "second wave" of layoffs as the reality of the new economy gradually emerges.

Since the implementation of the New Zealand epidemic alert restrictions, about 43,000 people have reported receiving unemployment benefits, and the number of unemployed has risen sharply.

Independent economist Cameron Bagrie said that as the epidemic continues, the second and third waves of unemployment would "move further up the food chain".

For example, coal mining companies will reorganize their executive teams, retail businesses will be affected, and enterprises will accelerate their focus on online sales, which will have an impact on commercial real estate companies. This may also speed up the closure of bank branches and the volume of transactions in the real estate market may drop by about a quarter.

7. New Zealand will conduct border health monitoring for all immigrants starting next week.

The Ministry of Health revealed that starting next week, everyone arriving at the New Zealand border should be tested for COVID-19.

Health Director-General Dr. Ashley Bloomfield said on Wednesday that this was part of a "targeted surveillance test" to ensure that the virus would not cross the border, which means everyone will be tested.

The border test has two aspects. The first is to confirm whether arriving passengers will accept to be tested twice and on which days they will be tested. The second is to test people working at the border because they are at a "higher risk" of contact with COVID-19.