Too soon to tell if 72-hour lockdown will be enough

Too soon to tell if 72-hour lockdown will be enough
Rebecca Howard
The latest community outbreak has been linked to the UK variant and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said it is too soon to know if a 72-hour lockdown is going to be enough.It is “just too early” to say, she told Radio NZ’s Morning Report. “I don’t want to draw that conclusion just yet.”Auckland will be at alert level 3 until midnight Wednesday while the rest of the country will be at alert level 2. This will be reviewed every 24 hours. The three new cases, a mother, father and daughter from South Auckland,...

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