A daily wrap of all the main developments in the Covid-19 Delta outbreak as New Zealand is plunged into lockdown for the fifth time. Tipene Funerals shared about the situation faced by one family when the funeral service planned for their husband and father was suddenly cancelled yesterday when the country went into lockdown due to a Covid scare in Auckland. "Today a funeral service was scheduled for the late Mr Ualesi Sio Fauali'i at the Samoan Seventh Day Adventist [church]. "However, due to alert level 4 lockdown, there is strictly no gathering and that includes funerals and burials. Tipene Funerals has a number of branches around the country and is well-known as the cast in the popular television show The Casketeers.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 18, 2021 19:30 UTC