New Zealand is putting the entire nation into a strict lockdown for at least three days after finding a single case of COVID in the community.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s government took drastic action Tuesday by putting the entire nation into a strict lockdown for at least three days after finding a single case of coronavirus infection in the community. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern invoked some of the stirring rhetoric she used early in the pandemic by urging the « team of 5 million » – New Zealand’s population – to go hard and early in trying to eliminate the latest outbreak. »We have seen what happens elsewhere if we fail to get on top of it, » Ardern said. « We only get one chance. »She said Auckland, where the infected man lives, and Coromandel, where he had visited, would go into a full lockdown for seven days and the remainder of the country for three days while health experts tried to find the source of his infection.
