New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has put the nation underneath a strict lockdown after one new Covid-19 case was reported in its largest metropolis of Auckland, the nation’s first case in six months.
From Wednesday, all of New Zealand shall be in lockdown for 3 days whereas Auckland and Coromandel, a coastal city that the contaminated individual had additionally hung out in, shall be in lockdown for seven days.
Imposing its hardest stage 4 lockdown guidelines, colleges, workplaces and all companies shall be shut down and solely important companies shall be operational.
Ms Ardern advised a information convention:
“The perfect factor we will do to get out of this as rapidly as we will is to go exhausting,”
“We have now made the choice on the idea that it’s higher to start out excessive and go down ranges slightly than to go low, not comprise the virus and see it transfer rapidly.”
Final week, New Zealand introduced plans to doubtlessly open to sure travellers in 2022.
