Video / TikTokDriving through paddocks, faking Covid tests and forging exemption letters - they're all strategies people have used while trying to escape Auckland in recent days. Police said in a statement there were still "a few isolated incidents" where people tried to breach the alert level 4 boundaries. One vehicle had been nabbed after its driver tried to evade a southern border checkpoint at Pukekawa by cutting through paddocks. "Staff with local knowledge caught up with this vehicle further south of the checkpoint heading toward Huntly. Auckland is in alert level 4 while the rest of New Zealand is in level 2, with people only allowed to cross the border in or out of the city under strict circumstances.

Source: New Zealand Herald September 19, 2021 02:48 UTC