By RNZ
Police say they have checked more than 58,000 vehicles on the borders of Auckland in the past three days - and turned around 554.
Auckland police say the numbers turned back at the checkpoints is less than one percent of traffic.
The region's borders are closed to all but non-essential traffic with the city at level 4 lockdown and the rest of Aotearoa at level 2.
The majority of vehicles turned back were at the southern checkpoints.