Photo: GettyReports of online anti-Chinese sentiment relating to the Covid-19 pandemic are worrying top Government officials, who are pleading with New Zealanders to "be kind to each other". The Government's lockdown taskforce yesterday confirmed 451 people in New Zealand have, or are likely to have, Covid-19. Stuart-Black told media 83 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed yesterday. The number of new confirmed cases yesterday was two fewer than the number of new cases confirmed on Friday. "I expect that we will have a number of cases and those cases will grow steeply because of the lag period of Covid-19."

Source: Otago Daily Times March 28, 2020 21:11 UTC