At 3 on Friday afternoon Cabinet ministers will meet to once again decide the lockdown future of the country.
Then at 5.30pm the Prime Minister will step up to the podium in the all-too-familiar Beehive theatrette and announce the plan to get things back on track after New Zealand's elimination strategy severely derailed this week.
It all comes after a new cluster of community transmission has officially taken grip of New Zealand, with 13 new cases confirmed yesterday in addition to the four announced on Tuesday.
NZ political reporter Jo Moir has this story.
