In 2023 will the COVID pandemic be in the rear view mirror, just a footnote to history? Or will it still be disrupting our lives? Firstly its clear that COVID is endemic in almost all countries and will likely circulate and evolve for a very long time. Causes for Comfort in 2023 The current Omicron outbreak may give a..

Navigatus has reviewed the impact of COVID-19 border controls for aircrew in the Asia-Pacific region. The New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade commissioned the research for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). In December 2020 the APEC member economies adopted the report and it was published by the APEC secretariat. The Navigatus report can be found in full..

With 93% of the population double-vaccinated, New Zealand is a vaccination success story. So what can we as risk managers learn about risk communication from this example? Most risk managers lean towards facts and figures from credible official sources as the way of assimilating and evaluating information. The problems come when we try to explain ourselves to a general..

As New Zealand prepares to ease the lockdown, enterprises operating under COVID-19 Alert Level 3 need to work out how to do so safely. The core objective of Level 3 is to: enable more enterprises to resume, while protecting the health and safety of workers, and protecting the wider population from transmission and spread of the virus. We have..

How will New Zealand exit the current lockdown? It’s now 2 weeks into a nation-wide lockdown to control Covid-19. This unprecedented control of civil liberties has backing across the political spectrum. Overall, the New Zealand response appears to be very well managed.  It also comes at huge social and economic cost. At the media briefing on 9 April the..

What will the world be like as the COVID-19 pandemic subsides? As we grapple with the impacts of this disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, business managers and policy makers need COVID-19 economic recovery forecast for post-pandemic recovery business planning. Several things are sure: many activities will rebound, some will be permanently changed, and some existing trends will be..

It’s been a while since SARS and while there have been other potential pandemics since, the COVID-19 outbreak is on a scale that has really shaken many into really thinking about their Business Continuity Planning. Business Continuity Management (BCM) and the related planning (BCP) is fundamentally simple – but depending on the complexity of your business can become involved..

Business Continuity Planning for COVID-19 Coronavirus On 24 February the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, said there was a very high chance COVID-19 will reach New Zealand. That has now happened with the first case in Auckland in a traveller just returned from Iran. We were fortunate as the person showed obvious symptoms of the disease, and his family did..

The rapidly developing COVID-19 situation and talk of a possible / probable global pandemic, has made me reflect on my prior experience as the Manager of BCP at Air New Zealand back in the 2000’s – a period where, thanks to SARS and Bird Flu, the world learnt first-hand how the rapid rise of mass global travel had changed..

Every day we hear more news of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 that has swept through the Hubei Province in China. The news reports seem to offer contrasting views day by day on whether an inflection point has been reached.  Meanwhile the death toll keeps climbing. How can we prepare for this disease? The initial response in China to the..