A war of words has broken out as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today trumpeted New Zealand's Covid outbreak response, pointedly comparing the country's low cases against skyrocketing US figures.
Embattled US President Donald Trump earlier took aim at New Zealand over our recent resurgence of coronavirus, describing yesterday's five new cases as a "massive breakout" even as US cases continue to grow by tens of thousand every day.
Speaking to a crowd in Pennsylvania, Trump said: "You look at our mortality rates, you look at all the things, but they like to compare us to others, so they were talking about New Zealand.
"New Zealand, New Zealand, it's over for New Zealand, everything's gone, it's all over - they're beautiful," Trump said.
"They had a massive breakout yesterday."