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Auckland will move out of alert level 3 lockdown at 11.59pm on Sunday evening, as previously announced, with only two new cases of covid-19 being reported to have been discovered in the community in the last day. Speaking at the daily government update on pandemic arrangements, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirmed that Aucklanders would once again be able to go to work and that businesses which have been closed for the last 18 days, following the discovery of a community transmission outbreak in South Auckland in mid-August, will be able...

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