"Ultimately the decisions around our future Covid measures are all under active consideration," Ms Ardern, in Dunedin today to present the Otago Daily Times Class Act awards, said.
"We are looking forward to announcing decisions next week."
The regulations enacting the current Covid-19 pandemic restrictions expire next week, and given falling case numbers nationwide Cabinet is expected to either drop the traffic light system all together, or maintain that framework and either keep New Zealand at "orange" or drop it to "green".
Mask mandates may also be dispensed with, although disability support organisations are deeply concerned about that prospect and were unhappy after being given less than 24 hours to respond to a request for feedback on the proposal by the Ministry of Disabled People.
"One of the considerations for us will be what are cases looking like and what are the hospitalisations looking like," Ms Ardern said.
"We are at the point of considering what our future measures will look like, we have had them on a regular rotation of consideration, and we did say that as we came out of winter that we would look at our settings overall to check that they are fit for purpose, and we are going through that process."
This morning Ms Ardern met conservation workers and volunteers working on predator control programmes as part of Predator Free Dunedin, and also toured He Toki Kai Te Rika, the new trades training centre being built at Otago Polytechnic.
- Mike Houlahan, Political reporter
