Jacinda Ardern confirms that original infection in 58-year-old man is the Delta variant
New Zealand has announced four new cases of Covid-19 overnight – including a nurse at Auckland hospital – in the country’s first community outbreak in months.
The country went into a snap level four lockdown – the highest level of restrictions – on Tuesday night, after detecting one case with no obvious links to the border. New Zealand has not had a level four lockdown in more than a year, and the case is the country’s first instance of Delta transmission in the community.