New Zealand widens Covid lockdown as Delta spreads outside Auckland
Jacinda Ardern puts parts of Waikato into five-day lockdown while country’s largest city records 32 new cases
New Zealand’s Delta Covid variant outbreak has spread beyond Auckland, prompting the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, to put additional regions into a snap lockdown.
There were 32 new coronavirus cases on Sunday in the country’s largest city, which has been in lockdown since mid-August, and two cases in the Waikato region, some 147km (91 miles) south of Auckland. Ardern announced on Sunday that parts of the region will go into a five-day lockdown.
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