Auckland emerges from strict weeklong Covid lockdown

Officials say no new local cases on Sunday, though masks still required on public transport

Auckland has come out of a weeklong lockdown imposed after a community cluster of the more contagious UK coronavirus variant.

There were no new local Covid-19 cases recorded on Sunday, health officials said, allowing for the restrictions to ease. If no community cases are confirmed during the rest of Sunday it would make a full seven days since the last community case.