New Zealand has announced a lockdown after a man tested positive in a PCR test which is the first case in six months.
The case was detected in Auckland, which will be in lockdown for a week, while the rest of the country will be in lockdown for three days.
Authorities say they are working on the assumption that the new case was the Delta variant.
Coromandel, a coastal town where the infected person had visited, will be in lockdown for seven days too.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the toughest “level 4” rules were required – closing schools, offices and all businesses with only essential services remaining operational.
“I want to assure New Zealand that we have planned for this eventuality. Going hard and early has worked for us before,” she said.
The patient is a 58-year-old man.
Ardern finished by saying: “We have seen what can happen elsewhere if we fail to get on top of it. We only get one chance. The Delta strain is ‘a game changer’.”
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