None of Auckland's hospital emergency departments have finished their Covid-19 preparations more than nine weeks into the outbreak and with patient numbers set to surge.
Some won't be done until the very end of the year, weeks after they're predicting about 20 emergency Covid-19 patients a day.
They're all still building negative pressure rooms, the gold standard for preventing the airborne virus spreading through corridors or air conditioning.
Health correspondent Rowan Quinn has been looking into what needs to be done.