- New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that the country will lift most of the lockdown orders.
- Auckland will continue to be locked down.
- On Saturday, a 90-year-old woman died of Covid-19.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (Jacinda Ardern) said on Monday that New Zealand this week will mainly lift the blockade on Covid-19, and only Auckland, the country’s infection center, will still comply with strict stay-at-home orders.
Ardern said that starting from Tuesday, about 3 million New Zealanders will no longer accept stay-at-home orders, and schools will reopen on Thursday, the first time in three weeks.
But she added that since the virus has not yet been brought under control in this city of 2 million people, the country’s Delta mutant outbreak broke out in Auckland in late August, and the country will continue to be strictly locked down for at least another week.
Ardern said that positive progress has been made in reducing the number of cases, but the highly-spread Delta variant is a “game changer”, which means that Auckland’s restrictions cannot be relaxed prematurely.
She said: “We have done a good job in controlling the epidemic, and the four-level (hard lockdown) restriction is working, but the work has not yet been completed.”
“We are about to be eliminated, but we can’t lose the ball.”
New Zealanders outside of Auckland will enter the country’s Level 4 Coronavirus Response System at Level 2 Alert.
This means that the stay-at-home order has been cancelled, but the freedom enjoyed before the emergence of the Auckland cluster-when family life in New Zealand was close to normal-will not be fully restored.
Indoor social gatherings will be limited to 50 people, and it will be mandatory to wear masks in many places and use tracking apps for scanning.
New Zealand is one of the last regions in the world free of Covid-19 and has won widespread praise for its pandemic response measures.
On Saturday, a woman in her 90s became New Zealand’s first person to die of Covid-19 since February, bringing the country’s pandemic death toll to 27.
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