"Clearly all the numbers are moving in the right direction," Bloomfield said when asked about the prospects for an alert level change in Auckland next Monday. Many businesses around the country are celebrating the move to alert level 2 overnight. Health workers were trying to top up the testing numbers by going into the workplaces of essential workers. Ardern said they were considered necessary because Delta was more transmissible than the variants that had come before it, prompting the need for a "Delta level 2". Police Commissioner Andrew Coster said they would continue to be out and about ensuring people were complying with alert level restrictions, even at level 2.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 07, 2021 20:15 UTC