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No need for new lockdown
Staff reporters
There will be no lockdown in Auckland as a result of the new case of covid-19 in the community discovered this week.The Auckland central business district will also be allowed to reopen, following a government announcement at 2pm that the case has been genomically linked to the so-called ‘defence force cluster’ identified last week.New Zealand will remain at the current Alert Level 1 and Aucklanders are being asked to be vigilant and to seek covid tests whether or not they have symptoms, if they were at any one of a number of locati...

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