Beating Delta means lifting our game,' Ms Ardern said.Īll schools and non-essential businesses such as supermarkets, pharmacies and petrol stations will shut down for the duration of lockdown, while Covid-19 vaccinations have been suspended for the next 48 hours. 'The simplest thing New Zealanders can do to reduce the spread of virus is to stay at home. They must wear a mask whenever they leave the house and keep a two metre distance from those other than household members. Under the highest Level Four restrictions, Kiwis can only leave their homes for exercise in their neighbourhood, getting groceries, medical care or getting a test. 'Remember to always act like you have Covid-19, stay clear of others don't put them in harm's way in the same way you would expect that they don't put you in harm's way.' 'I'm asking the team of five million to unite once more to defeat what is likely the more transmissible and deadly variant of the virus. 'We've seen the dire consequences of taking too long to act in other countries, not at least our neighbours. Australia is also lagging behind (21 per cent). New Zealand's sluggish vaccine rollout leaves it particularly susceptible to a deadly outbreak, with only 17 per cent of the entire population fully vaccinated. Politicians claim the situation is the worst the nation has faced since the start of the pandemic - even though it is much less severe than the darkest spells of outbreaks in Britain and America. The strain is already piling pressure on hospitals in Australia, which has deployed a similar economically-crippling elimination strategy. She referred to neighbouring Australia's difficulty in controlling the spread of the virus when she addressed the nation on Tuesday night. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern urged the country to follow the rules 'to the letter' amid fears the highly-transmissible variant could undermine New Zealand's brutal 'zero-Covid' strategy. The case is being assumed to be infected with the highly contagious Indian Delta strain until genome testing results come back on Wednesday. Kiwis will be locked in their homes for all but essential reasons, with businesses forced to shut and masks mandatory whenever a person leaves the house.Ī 58-year-old Auckland man, who is unvaccinated, tested positive on Tuesday and is believed to have been infectious for the last five days. He had travelled with his wife to Coromandel - which is on the east of the North Island - at the weekend. The entire country will enter a three-day Level Four lockdown from 11.59pm Tuesday, while Auckland and the Coromandel Peninsula will suffer under the rules for at least a week.
New Zealand has been plunged into a snap lockdown after a single mystery Covid case was found in Auckland, the nation's first locally-acquired case since February.
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