There will be no change to alert levels in Auckland or the rest of New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced. The reason for no immediate changes was the continued emergence of some mystery cases and the chance that cases could still leak out of Auckland, Ardern said. Ardern said Cabinet had agreed in principle to move Auckland to alert level 3 at Tuesday next week at 11.59pm. Cabinet met this afternoon to decide on any alert level changes, as 33 new community cases were announced - all in Auckland. He said the mystery cases could prove to be a problem in that they could easily spark up other clusters.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 13, 2021 04:07 UTC