Auckland will be pressed back into Level 3 lockdown for three days from midday Wednesday to stop the spread of Covid-19, while the rest of the country will also be put back into Level 2 for three days.
The new lock down comes after the Government confirmed the first case of community transmission in over 100 days, with four cases of Covid-19 present in one family.
The Government is urgently trying to work out where the case came from, as no link to the border or overseas travel has been established. The Government will use the next 72 hours in Auckland to roll out a testing blitz – in the order of tens of thousands of tests – to get a clear idea over the extent of any wider community transmission.