Coronavirus restrictions in New Zealand’s largest city will be lifted this week, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said today as she expressed confidence a second wave of coronavirus infections in Auckland has been almost eliminated, Reuters reports. The city will move to alert level 1 from 11.59 p.m. on Wednesday, joining the rest of the country, after reporting no new cases in the Auckland cluster for 10 consecutive days. “There is now a 95 percent probability of the cluster being eliminated,” Ardern said at a news conference. “COVID-19 will be with us for many months to come. But we should still mark these milestones.”

Source: The Standard October 05, 2020 02:03 UTC