Our 5 million team mates have achieved what no other country of our size has managed to do.

Today our country is Covid-19 free and tomorrow we start level 1.

Jacinda's plan was never going to be an easy one but as we look around the world at our neighbours we now know how necessary it was.

I'd like to thank every single resident of New Zealand for letting us celebrate this moment together and if you thought it was a piece of cake let me share with you what my 50 days of lockdown looked like.

Click here for Paul's Covid Lockdown Journal