As New Zealand appears to be turning a corner with coronavirus, other countries who were hit by the virus earlier now face the threat of a potentially stronger second wave.
Places like Singapore had shown signs of successfully reducing the impact of Covid-19, but now cases in the small but populous country are surging.
Simon Gordon, a Kiwi now living in Singapore, warns that leaving the lockdown too early could affects New Zealand's cases numbers like it did for Singapore, which is experiencing a second wave of the virus - recording nearly 450 new cases in 24 hours.
"They were trying to walk a very fine line and they were doing really well then in the last week cases have gone up a lot," he says.
This comes despite the country having been in a state like Alert Level 3 since February and is now in a version of lockdown.
Mr Gordon warns that other countries could experience a similar increase if restrictions are lifted early as they had been in Singapore.
"If Singapore gets stuck in this way I wouldn’t be surprised if other countries do as well."
He says countries will need to be "well prepared" as well as a "bit lucky" to be able to avoid feeling the effects of a second wave of cases.
Watch his full interview above.
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