Covid-19 - face masks and hand sanitiser

Hi there

During all lockdown levels, there were no face masks for me to buy.  The only ones that got into the country were given to essential services.  During level 2 lockdown when I took up our prime minister's plea for NZ citizens to go on a local holiday to boost economic spending - and I went to Mt Maunganui - there weren't any masks in sight at the holiday resorts.  Now that we're down to level 1*, I still haven't seen anyone wearing a mask.  Yet, judging by tv pictures from around the world, mask-wearing is everywhere.

And hand sanitiser?  A friend had half of a big bottle, left over from a year before Covid-19, and has guarded it with zest during  all lockdown levels.  Only when the country dropped down to level 1 did shops get in supplies for private sale.

Toilet paper is manufactured here, so we got that in abundence...


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*level 1 complete freedom in country, except for border control entry.
There has been no community transmission in weeks.