The Covid Diaries: A year in the life of a pandemic recovery

It’s been a year since New Zealand was plunged into Covid-19 alert level four lockdown. It meant working from home, sticking to our bubbles and a lot of uncertainty.

Stuff reporters have been following five people or businesses to see how the pandemic affected their lives since New Zealand moved to Alert Level 4 on March 25, 2020.

Pat and Anh Chaimontree

Credits

Words:

Josephine Franks
Libby Wilson
Maia Hart
Debbie Jamieson

Visuals:

Stuff visual journalists

Design:

John Harford

Project Editors:

Georgia Weaver
Natalie Crockett
Natasha Holland

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