Jacinda Ardern will announce if we are to head into Alert level 3 from Thursday at the weekly post-Cabinet media conference today.
Central to that decision is the efficiency of contact tracing Covid-19 cases.
The Health Ministry has been consulting with the state spy agency, the GCSB, about how best to trace people as it works to get its Covid-19 systems up to speed.
The contact tracing system is several days away from being at the promised 'gold standard'.
Phil Pennington reports.
