The Indian Weekender, Friday 21 August 2020

The Indian Weekender Friday, August 21, 2020
NEW ZEALAND 11
Second wave of Covid-19 in NZ:
Undeterred Jacinda Ardern
holds nerve and continues
with elimination strategy
SANDEEP SINGH
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has held
her nerves and opted to continue with
the government’s elimination strategy
by keeping Auckland’s current lockdown and
rest of New Zealand’s Alert level 2 status for
12 more days.
There were concerns in some quarters that
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will be under
pressure especially after the astounding attack
by the opposition leader and her deputy last
week and compounded by some aggressive
probing in the mainstream media around
alleged ineptitude in border management, and
eventually blink from her focus of eliminating
the Covid-19 virus from the country.
To be fair to the government and her caucus
colleagues, including the coalition partners
who are collectively behind the decisions
of continuing with the elimination strategy.
However, in the end, it is left for Prime Minister
Ardern - their ultimate sales-person – to sell
those seemingly hard decisions that can cause
much inconvenience, distress and weariness
among a section of the public – a task that she
has repeatedly accomplished with aplomb.
Her detractors, including the leader of
the Opposition Judith Collins and National
Party’s deputy leader Gerry Brownlee, have
so far not succeeded in making a successful
hit on her political persona, despite many
repeated attempts.
The suggestions coming from Gery Brownlee
about the government’s lack of sharing of
accurate information about the second wave
of Covid-19, which dangerously bordered
closed to conspiracy-theories going around that
are already weakening our collective human
response to a virus that is far from being tamed
MontayKart: Revolutionising the way we buy groceries
SUPPLIED CONTENT
Last decade has seen steady and continuous
growth in the e-commerce business as
people are getting used to buying things
online rather than going to the stores. Every
range of products is available online; however,
buying groceries online remains a challenge for
many.
It is not due to the demand; it is because not
many groceries businesses have gone online
as there are many challenges like logistics,
marketing, request, etc.
Covid-19 made things challenging for all of
us. Everything was being purchased online by
the majority; however, the options for groceries
was minimal, especially ethnic Indian groceries.
For many, this was a challenge, but for Sameer
and Jasmit, it was an opportunity as collectively
they build MontayKart which offered a solution
to this problem.
MontayKart launched its website with a
limited range of products like many startups
do; however, soon, it became the first choice
of many, and people started suggesting and
demanding more products.
Looking at the demand, both worked their
way out and increased the inventory five times
within two months and met the requirements of
the majority.
They still feel that they need to grow even
more prominent so that MontayKart can keep
or managed, has not gone down well with
experts and the public.
The members of the public despite having
all valid interest in continuous probing of
the government, in pursuit of excellence and
consistent improvement in our public health
response, does not favour a line of attack that
ultimately undermines the credibility of the
public health system.
Our public health system, along with the
scientific community who have been providing
the cutting edge research and advice to the
system, who eventually are preparing official
advice to the Minister of Health and eventually
to the cabinet and the Prime Minister are
the core basis of New Zealand’s successful
response to the Covid-19 virus so far.
The success that our system had so far
achieved in being ahead of the curve in
managing the virus or pacing up quickly where
the virus had been smart enough to deceive us
is also a matter of appreciation and attention.
The repeated attempts of castigating the
same public health system that has so far not
let us down, appears politically motivated,
and not hidden from the anxious eyes of the
New Zealanders.
National has to be mindful, and so should
be the section of media that is relishing the
opportunity of casting aspersions on a public
health system that is consistently rising to the
occasion every time the virus has raised its ugly
head in the community.
The testing capacity was ramped up
significantly in Auckland region ever since
the decision of moving the supercity to Alert
Level 3 was taken on Tuesday, August 11
with a number of pop-up test centres being
made available for mass-testing, while several
mobile test centres chasing the close and casual
up with the demands they are getting.
Startups are nothing but a sack full of
challenges, and this team has so far overcome
all the hurdles they have faced and are
dedicated to face anything that comes their way.
Currently, Montaykart is offering the majority
of the Indian grocery items, including dairy and
frozen products. It is a feat in itself as only big
players have been able to do that so far.
MontayKart offers delivery options all across
Auckland, where you can get your groceries
delivered at your door within 24 hours and all
that with the comfort of ordering while sitting
on the cosy couch of your living room.
contacts of the family of South Auckland
region who are yet believed to be the first
case of the second wave of Covid-19.
The performance is indeed
immaculate and deserves the backing
of the nation, and any probing and
scrutiny though desirable, should not
be seen as politically motivated.
So is the performance of Prime
Minister Ardern, which is standing
out even further, because of
clear shortcomings of her main
political adversaries.
The seeming political immaturity
of her opponents is giving her ample
political space to successfully
manoeuvre through any period
of inconvenience within the
nation’s politics.
The second wave of Covid-19
in the country was never meant
to be politically comfortable
for Jacinda Ardern and was the
opportunity that many political
pundits had ascribed to the
opposition National party as
their opportunity to win back
the voters confidence.
However, it seems Prime
Minister Jacinda Ardern
has been able to deal with
the crisis so far, like a walk
in the park - at least for
now - while the National
Party remains as clueless
as it was a few months ago
when the country had entered
into complete lockdown.
Covid-19 in New Zealand,
Round 2 also goes to Prime Minister Ardern.
Visit www.montaykart.co.nz and be the next
to try its exceptional service.
Why Online grocery shopping is a need
of the hour
Buying your groceries online is the New
Normal. There are many benefits of buying
groceries online.
Firstly it saves you a lot of time. On average,
every week for a household, it takes from 2 to
3 hours for buying groceries and travel. Just
imagine if you spend that time with your family
or doing something more productive.
Secondly, Not just time it saves you the
transportation cost or petrol for your car.
Sometimes you need the particular grocery
item which is not available in the nearest
grocery store and for that, you’ll have to travel
some distance
Buying groceries at Montaykart will save
you that hassle and save you some money.
Thirdly, Many times when you are in the
grocery store, you buy things that you don’t
need and regret later on why you wasted money
on that product.
Buying your groceries online saves you from
that hassle as you do not get carried away by
seeing a product physically. It is another way
of saving money and another benefit of buying
groceries online at www.montaykart.co.nz.
Fourthly, At www.montaykart.co.nz you can
create your account which you can personalise.
Once you buy the products from Montaykart,
you can save your favourite products for
future purchases. It saves you more time when
you purchase the next time because you have
already saved your favourite products which
you buy regularly.
You can select those products by default and
then add on the extras that you want to buy that
time. Again, it saves a lot of time and a lot of
effort in travelling, looking for a product and
making a list every week.
Lastly, we guarantee you the satisfaction
of quality and service when you purchase
groceries from www.montaykart.co.nz.