New Zealand to end COVID-19 lockdown in largest city | Inquirer News

New Zealand to end COVID-19 lockdown in largest city

/ 12:40 PM February 17, 2021

WELLINGTON — New Zealand will lift COVID-19 lockdown in its largest city of Auckland and ease restrictions in the rest of the country from midnight on Wednesday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.

Auckland’s nearly 2 million residents were plunged into a snap three-day lockdown on Monday, after a more contagious COVID-19 variant that first emerged in Britain was detected in a family of three.

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