New Zealand moved into a snap three-day lockdown Tuesday after identifying a single case of locally transmitted Covid-19 suspected to be the Delta variant, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.
Ardern said New Zealand, which had not recorded any infections in the community for six months, could not take any chances with the “game changer” Delta strain.
“We have seen what can happen elsewhere if we fail to get on top of it. We only get one chance,” Ardern said in a televised national address.
The New Zealand leader cited Australia’s struggles to contain the highly transmissible Delta variant for her “short, sharp” reaction to the case, which was found in a 58-year-old Auckland man.
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