August 17 2021. Auckland and Coromandel will go into level 4 lockdown for seven days – and the rest of the country for three days – following news of a community Covid-19 case in NZ's biggest city. Video / NZ Herald / Getty
Additional testing sites will be opened across Auckland tomorrow as New Zealand moves into level 4 lockdown following a new Covid-19 community case in Auckland.
The case is a 58-year-old Devonport man and there is no obvious link between him the border at this stage.
Auckland and Coromandel, where the man travelled to with his wife at the weekend, would go into lockdown for seven day and the rest of the country for three days - from 11.59pm tonight.
Additional sites would open across Auckland tomorrow - including a pop-up centre in Narrow Neck - while DHBs would ensure there were testing centres accessible across the country.
Covid-19 swabs can be done at a community testing centre or at your general practice but people should call ahead before turning up.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield announced the move into lockdown at a press conference this evening.
Ardern told media the positive case couldn't be confirmed as Delta until genome sequencing was confirmed tomorrow - but every recent case in managed isolated had been the variant.
