New Zealand and Australia parties like it’s 2019

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As the rest of the world isolates, New Zealand rocks!

More than 50,000 people gathered for a massive rock concert in the island nation, which is free of social-distancing requirements after virtually stamping out COVID-19 with strict policies.

The band Six60 has been playing to huge crowds across the county, and its Saturday tour finale in Auckland’s biggest stadium was billed as the largest concert in the world since the pandemic began.

And it wasn’t just Kiwi rock fans who got to gather this weekend — with 78,113 fans packing into a stadium in neighboring Australia for an Aussie rules football match on Sunday.

The game, between the Collingwood Magpies and Essendon Bombers at the 100,000-seat Melbourne Cricket Ground, was the highest attendance at any sports stadium since the pandemic started.

At the Six60 concert, the band honored military musicians and invited Maori performers to join them onstage for music sung in the indigenous language.

“We know what it’s like to be in lockdown. It sucked. And we didn’t know if we’d be able to play gigs again,” lead singer Matiu Walters said before the show. “But we are fortunate, for a few reasons, here in New Zealand.”

Only 26 people have died of the coronavirus in the nation of 5 million, according to Worldometer.