Lahore, 30th August: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern extends lockdown in Auckland for further two weeks keeping in view the number of coronavirus in the country.
According to details, NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Monday to further extend the lockdown in Auckland for two more weeks.
While health officials have reported the country’s first death linked to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
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New Zealand had remained largely free of the virus for months except for a few number of cases in February, until an outbreak of Delta variant imported from Australia prompted Ardern to impose a nationwide lockdown on August 17.
According to reports, the number of positive cases in NZ has reached 562, however, on Monday, the number of daily cases dropped to 53, which is the lowest over the past five days.
Ardern addressed a press conference today and said, “I know we all feel encouraged that our number is lower than what we’ve seen in the last few days and I know we’re all willing for that trend to remain. The job is not yet done and we do need to keep going.”
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NZ PM has ordered that the Aucklanders, which are around 1.7 million in number, will remain under strict level 4 lockdown for another two weeks, while restrictions for the rest of the country will ease to a level 3.
As per reports, New Zealand has provisionally approved use of the Pfizer-BioNTech, Janssen and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines, but only the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been approved for rollout to the public.
Jacinda Ardern said the country has 840,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine remaining and it continues to receive 350,000 doses each week.
However, around 21% of the population of 5.1 million people have been fully vaccinated which is the slowest pace among the wealthy nations.
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