Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had introduced the country to the now well-known alert level system only a few days earlier. New Zealand was plunged into alert level 3 immediately and would move to level 4 in 48 hours. An almost empty Newmarket Flyover on Auckland's Southern Motorway on day one of lockdown, 26 March 2020. New Zealand wakes up to the unprecedented nationwide lockdown on March 26, 2020. Photo / Michael CraigStress levels haven't eased since the country went into an alert level 4 lockdown a year ago.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 24, 2021 15:56 UTC