Coronavirus restrictions in New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland, have been reduced to alert level two, after a two-and-a-half week period of stage three lockdown | jamesmassola
Coronavirus restrictions in New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland, have been reduced to alert level two, after a two-and-a-half week period of stage three lockdown.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern travelled to Auckland on Monday morning to visit a government infrastructure project. She acknowledged that people were fatigued by the re-imposition lockdown restrictions but said that "relative to others, we [New Zealand] are doing really well".After exiting stage-three restrictions, Auckland is still subject to some additional measures, such as a limit on gatherings to 10 people - compared to 100 in the rest of the country, which is also at level two - and the eased restrictions have been dubbed "alert level 2.5" restrictions.
He added that "anecdotally" it appeared that about 50 per cent on the street in Auckland were wearing masks, too.The Minister urged Auckland residents to follow the new health guidelines as “we continue to chase down the remnants of the current cluster”.Hipkins said he was pleased with the current testing levels, with 7219 people tested on Sunday. More than 60,000 people have been tested since a testing blitz that aimed to test 70,000 people was launched last week.
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