New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern managed better than all in COVID-19

Ground Report
3 min readJun 29, 2020

Womens are managing the COVID-19 pandemic much better than that of man. New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern announced that the country has eliminated the transmission of the New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern announced that the country has eliminated the transmission of the COVID-19. Ardern’s statement came after a statement Director-General of Health, Ashley Bloomfield, said the country had no new active COVID-19 cases.. Ardern’s statement came after a statement Director-General of Health, Ashley Bloomfield, said the country had no new active COVID-19 cases. When the whole world is fighting with coronavirus, New Zealand added its name in the list of “Corona Free Countries”. And the last person has been recovered from the disease. Bloomfield said it had been 17 days since the last new case had been reported, and the first time since late February there have been no active cases.

Bloomfield called the milestone “a significant mark in our journey” but said “ongoing vigilance against COVID-19 will continue to be essential.” The country of a little less than five million put in-place a strict lockdown on March 25th, and ever since the authorities were on their toes to ‘flatten the curve’ of viral spread.

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A brief about this amazing woman leader

Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern born on 26 July 1980 is a New Zealand’s politician who is serving as the 40th prime minister of New Zealand and Leader of the Labour Party since 2017. She has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mount Albert since March 2017, having first been elected to the House of Representatives as a list MP in 2008. Ardern was raised by her mother and father, a police officer, in Murupara and Morrinsville on New Zealand’s North Island. She was raised Mormon and described herself as an “acceptable nerd” in high school.

“It was how my friends identified me. I was both Mormon and the sober driver — that was the benefit they saw from my [church] membership,” she told Time in 2017. In 2005, Arden left the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints over its stance on LGBTQ people and now identifies as agnostic, People reported.Ardern was sworn into office in October 2017 and has been applauded for being an outspoken voice against sexism and racism during her time in office.

Ardern joined New Zealand Parliament in 2008. Jacinda Ardern speaks to MPs in Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, in October 2017. Associated Press. At 28 years old, Ardern was elected into New Zealand’s Parliament as part of the center-left Labour Party. At the time, she was the parliament’s youngest sitting member. Nine years later, in July 2017, Ardern was serving as deputy to the Labour Party’s leader, Andrew Little, when he stepped down and named her as his successor.

Suddenly the party’s polling numbers started to climb in what the country called “Jacindamania.” When Ardern assumed office in October 2017, she became New Zealand’s youngest leader in 150 years. Her platform focused on education reform, poverty, and mental healthcare, and she campaigned with “relentless positivity.” Ardern was a welcoming presence who occasionally spoke with reporters directly in the beginning stages of her leadership, instead of going through a spokesperson.

Ardern gave birth to her daughter, Neve Te Aroha Ardern Gayford, in June 2018. It is her first child with her longtime partner, the TV host Clarke Gayford. At the time, only one other world leader, former Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto, had given birth while in office. Ardern celebrated her daughter’s birth on Instagram, thanking the “wonderful team at Auckland City Hospital” for its help.

After six weeks of maternity leave, Ardern returned to work, with Gayford staying home to care for their daughter.
When her daughter was 3 months old, Ardern brought her to the United Nations General Assembly in hopes of creating “a path for other women.”

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