This wave of COVID-19 peaked at around 250 cases<ref>https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/new-zealand/</ref> in mid-December to then gradually decrease due to the population building up natural immunity<ref>https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2109/S00096/covid-immunity-calculus.htm</ref>. The decline of the Delta wave of COVID-19 did not result in COVID-19 being eradicated from the community as what public health "experts" of the country hoped for because of the new wave of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. The Omicron wave started in mid-February of 2022 and to this date has resulted in hundreds of thousands of people being infected with it<ref>https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/03/coronavirus-new-zealand-covid-death-toll-spikes-to-105-as-people-losing-years-of-a-potential-healthy-life.html</ref>. | This wave of COVID-19 peaked at around 250 cases<ref>https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/new-zealand/</ref> in mid-December to then gradually decrease due to the population building up natural immunity<ref>https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2109/S00096/covid-immunity-calculus.htm</ref>. The decline of the Delta wave of COVID-19 did not result in COVID-19 being eradicated from the community as what public health "experts" of the country hoped for because of the new wave of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. The Omicron wave started in mid-February of 2022 and to this date has resulted in hundreds of thousands of people being infected with it<ref>https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/03/coronavirus-new-zealand-covid-death-toll-spikes-to-105-as-people-losing-years-of-a-potential-healthy-life.html</ref>. |