New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced Auckland will move into level 3 restrictions. Ms Ardern said the Covid restrictions will be taken down from level 4 to level 3 tonight at 11:59pm.
The city has been in level 4 restrictions for close to 5 weeks, the longest the country has seen. It was confirmed the new cases have not been spread in essential places, proving that infection control works. Ms Ardern said, “Level three is a continuation of stamping out, not a cutting loose of those restrictions.”