Almost 2000 vehicles were denied entry through police checkpoints at Auckland's northern and southern boundaries in the past week.
Between 6am on Sunday February 28 and 6am today police stopped a total of 113,212 vehicles at the 10 boundary checkpoints across North and South Auckland, according to the final figures released to the Herald this afternoon.
Of those vehicles only 1.8 per cent were turned around.
Under Auckland's level 3 restrictions only essential travel was allowed in, out and through the Supercity. Anyone who did not meet the criteria was turned away.
Of the 1988 vehicles that were turned away - 558 were from northern checkpoints and 1430 from southern checkpoints.