New Zealand Covid outbreak: Ardern puts Auckland into three-day lockdown
by Rebecca Ratcliffe and agencies from World news | The Guardian on (#5E5AA)
Three members of a South Auckland family have tested positive for Covid-19, prompting Jacinda Ardern to place the region into level 3 measures
Lockdown measures will be introduced across Auckland from midnight on Sunday, while restrictions will also be increased elsewhere in New Zealand, after three local cases were reported over the weekend.
Prime minister Jacinda Ardern said the government was taking a cautionary approach to the cases, and acting under the assumption that the cases involved new, more transmissible strains of the virus. The source of the cases is not yet known.
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