New Zealand mulls lockdown extension as COVID-19 spreads

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New Zealand mulls lockdown extension as COVID-19 spreads
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New Zealand health officials said Wednesday a COVID-19 cluster in Auckland had grown, raising the prospect a lockdown imposed on the country's ...

Bloomfield said it was"almost certain" more cases would emerge, and teams of health workers were racing to find the cluster's origin.

"This is what we want to do as quickly as possible to find out how extensive the outbreak is and who the first case might have been." "It's a possibility - it's unlikely but it's something we need to rule out," Bloomfield said, adding that another focus was whether the infection came from managed isolation facilities.

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