New Zealand said on Tuesday that it has two new cases of the coronavirus, both related to recent travel from the U.K., ending a 24-day streak of no new infections in the country. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had warned that new cases may come up in the future as New Zealanders return home, and some others were allowed in under special conditions. Both women arrived in New Zealand on June 7 from the U.K. via Doha and Brisbane and were in an isolation facility in Auckland. Ardern has been wary of saying the country was "COVID-free" as the global pandemic raged around the world and new cases were likely to come to the country. "I don't want New Zealanders to believe that the battle is over when it is not," she said earlier this week.

Source: CBC News June 16, 2020 02:08 UTC