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New Zealand's largest city, Auckland, will remain effectively closed for normal business for another four days, with the government announcing an extension of the alert level 3 lockdown that has been in place since Aug 12. The rest of New Zealand will stay under level 2 restrictions, requiring social distancing.  The news came after another nine cases of covid-19 were identified in Auckland today, eight of them related to a cluster that first emerged in South Auckland just before the latest lockdown commenced. Seven are confirmed as linke...

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