New Zealand in lockdown over first COVID infection in 6 months

Jacinda Ardern announced that all New Zealand will be in the toughest, level-four lockdown for at least three days.

New Zealand was ordered into a strict nationwide lockdown Tuesday — after just one COVID-19 case was detected.

It was the first locally transmitted infection in the community in six months.

“The best thing we can do to get out of this as quickly as we can is to go hard,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said in a televised national address.

“We have seen what can happen elsewhere if we fail to get on top of it. We only get one chance,” she insisted.

Ardern announced that all New Zealand will be in the toughest, level-four lockdown for at least three days from Wednesday, with schools, offices and businesses closed and only essential services operational.

The biggest city, Auckland — where the unidentified 58-year-old man tested positive — would have a longer, seven-day lockdown, as would Coromandel, a coastal town where the infected person spent time.

Source: New Zealand in lockdown over first COVID infection in 6 months

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