Back in August, New Zealand's government put the entire nation on lockdown after a single community case of the coronavirus was detected. It was the latest sign of just how radically New Zealand's approach to the virus has shifted, moving from elimination to suppression and now to something approaching acceptance as the omicron variant has taken hold. Experts say New Zealand's sometimes counterintuitive actions have likely saved thousands of lives by allowing the nation to mostly avoid earlier, more deadly variants and buying time to get people vaccinated.
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As virus cases go from 1 to 24,000, New Zealand changes tack
