WELLINGTON - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday extended a lockdown in New Zealand's largest city, saying more time was needed to ensure a stubborn cluster of coronavirus infections was under con
WELLINGTON - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday extended a lockdown in New Zealand's largest city, saying more time was needed to ensure a stubborn cluster of coronavirus infections was under control.
"These extra four days are believed necessary to allow us to move down a level in Auckland, and stay down," she said.Auckland went into lockdown on August 12, a day after the virus re-emerged in the city, ending New Zealand's record of 102 days without community transmission. Ardern said more cases were likely and health authorities needed to confirm the cluster was contained before changing the lockdown settings.
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