You're never going to get to COVID Zero. It'll be an endemic disease as long as you want an open economy.
Telling communities that have handled the virus relatively well that they have to shutdown because certain areas are hot spots is baffling.
It's the way you keep them from becoming hotspots instead of having to deal with them as hot spots.
Australia and New Zealand are virtually covid free because they jumped on it hard and early instead of waiting for it to become something they couldn't control.