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"Aucklanders who have been vaccinated or tested will be able to reconnect with the rest of New Zealand in time for Christmas and summer", Ardern said Wednesday in Wellington. (Bloomberg) -- New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said a temporary border around Auckland will lift on Dec. 15, allowing vaccinated people or those who show a negative Covid-19 test result to leave the city for the first time in almost four months. [Extracted from the article]

"Aucklanders who have been vaccinated or tested will be able to reconnect with the rest of New Zealand in time for Christmas and summer", Ardern said Wednesday in Wellington. (Bloomberg) -- New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said a temporary border around Auckland will lift on Dec. 15, allowing vaccinated people or those who show a negative Covid-19 test result to leave the city for the first time in almost four months. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern further eased Covid-19 restrictions in Auckland and said the country's largest city is on track to exit lockdown by the end of the month. "Cabinet has a check-in on Nov. 29 and there is a strong expectation that Auckland will likely move into the Covid-19 Protection Framework following this check-in", Ardern said, referring to the new traffic-light system that will see New Zealand move away from large-scale lockdowns. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- New Zealand's ambitious plan to vaccinate 90% of people against Covid-19 before re-opening to the world may not be enough to protect one of its most vulnerable groups from the deadly virus: the indigenous Maori population. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's roadmap to begin freeing the country from lockdowns and opening the border centers on her vaccination target being met. [Extracted from the article]

The Ministry of Health reported 60 new cases of Covid inthe community today -- 57 in Auckland and three in theneighboring Waikato region, parts of which also remain inlockdown. (Bloomberg) -- New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardernextended a lockdown in Auckland for at least another twoweeks, but said a vaccination target would be introducedon Friday to give people an indication of whenrestrictions could be eased. [Extracted from the article]

New Zealand's health system has not yet been tested bysurging Covid cases, but ministers now concede a lockdown inlargest city Auckland won't beat the infectious delta strainand are preparing to ease restrictions as vaccination ratesrise. (Bloomberg) -- Once the envy of the world for its handlingof the pandemic, New Zealand is now preparing its healthsystem for an influx of Covid-19 patients as it pivots awayfrom its elimination strategy. [Extracted from the article]

Auckland will remain at Alert Level 3, meaning people cannot leave the city and should stay at home where possible, for at least another week, Ardern said Monday in Wellington. (Bloomberg) -- New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern extended a lockdown in Auckland as the nation's largest city continues to record new community cases of Covid-19, but presented a road-map for restrictions to be gradually eased over coming weeks in an apparent move away from her government's elimination strategy. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern extended a lockdown in Auckland as the nation's largest city continues to record new community cases of Covid-19, but presented a road-map for restrictions to be gradually eased over coming weeks. The extension of Level 3 restrictions in Auckland follows news that the outbreak has spread to the neighboring Waikato district, prompting a snap lockdown in fourth-largest city Hamilton. [Extracted from the article]

Ardern's cabinet is due to decide on Monday whether Auckland can exit a lockdown that is now in its seventh week. New Zealand placed its fourth-largest city into a snap lockdown after two cases of Covid-19 were reported outside Auckland, where an outbreak of the infectious delta variant continues to fester. [Extracted from the article]

Stuck in Tahiti with no available flights, Paul Stratfold was running out of time to get back home to Australia and renew his residency visa. Under siege from an outbreak of the delta variant after a single case evaded its border curbs, Australia has repeatedly slashed its quarantine quota, with fewer than 3,000 overseas arrivals allowed in each week. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- The delta variant of coronavirus is a big challenge for New Zealand's elimination strategy and could force the government to rethink the way it responds to an outbreak, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said. New Zealand has pursued a Covid-Zero strategy since the start of the pandemic, with its border closed to foreigners and all returning residents having to stay in a managed isolation facility for two weeks. [Extracted from the article]

In New Zealand, where authorities have linked Sydney's outbreak to 51 local cases, the country's initial three-day nationwide lockdown was extended until at least Tuesday. Australia's reported its highest daily number of new Covid-19 cases, with infections in New South Wales jumping almost 30% in one day and the spreading delta variant outbreak forcing neighboring Victoria state to expand its lockdown beyond the city of Melbourne. [Extracted from the article]

Victoria, whose state capital Melbourne is in its sixth lockdown, announced 61 cases, according to a tweet from the state's health department. Outbreaks of the Covid-19 delta variant became more widespread in New Zealand and the Australian state of New South Wales, while neighboring Victoria expanded its lockdown beyond the city of Melbourne and introduced measures to protect children. [Extracted from the article]