New Zealand extends Auckland lockout by one more week | Community | USA Edition

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinta Artern on Monday extended the harsh imprisonment of about 1.6 million people in the densely populated city of Auckland, a maritime country, for another week, in view of the local spread of Kovit-19.

“We continue to find unconnected cases. Detecting them through surveillance and community testing, rather than through contact tracking, is a risk because it poses a risk,” Ardern told a news conference.

This Monday, New Zealand authorities reported 33 new local infections in Auckland, which were controlled in mid-August, as they tried to speed up their vaccination campaign to eliminate Kovit-19 in their region.

The president said the city will remain at the maximum alert level until midnight on September 21, after which, in principle, it will ease some of the measures imposed to prevent the epidemic of delta variation.

New Zealand authorities will maintain intermittent alert levels in other parts of the country until next Tuesday, indicating social control measures and the use of masks.

Despite lagging behind in vaccination campaigns compared to other developed countries, New Zealand is globally recognized for effectively managing the epidemic by closing its borders and making difficult and early imprisonment.

New Zealand has provided a complete schedule of the Covid-19 vaccine to 35 percent of its adults and has accumulated nearly 4,000 infections, including 27 deaths since the outbreak.