Lockdown
REUTERS New Zealand extended a strict lockdown in its largest city on Monday, requiring 1.7 million people living in Auckland to remain indoors for at least another week to snuff out small outbreaks of the highly infectious Delta variant of corona..
REUTERS New Zealand reported a drop in new COVID-19 infections on Thursday, which authorities said was a sign that a nationwide lockdown was helping to limit spread of the infectious Delta variant. Barring a few cases in February, New..
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REUTERS New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday extended a lockdown in Auckland by two weeks, while officials reported the country's first death linked to the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. New Zealand had been ..
REUTERS Sri Lanka announced a 10-day lockdown starting on Friday night in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus, assurging infections and deaths overwhelm the island's health system. The Indian Ocean nation recorded its highest si..
REUTERS WELLINGTON, Aug 20 - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern extended New Zealand's strict nationwide coronavirus lockdown on Friday, saying the full extent of the Delta outbreak was still unknown. The lockdown will run until ..
REUTERS New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a nationwide lockdown on Tuesday after a new case of COVID-19 was discovered in the biggest city of Auckland. The lockdown will run seven days in Auckland, but three days elsewhere. Ar..
REUTERS On-the-spot fines for people breaking lockdown rules in Sydney and the rest of its home state of New South Wales have been raised sharply to as much as A$5,000 ($3,700) as the state logged a record jump in daily new COVID-19 infections. ..
REUTERS Australian authorities on Wednesday extended a lockdown in Melbourne for another seven days until Aug. 19 as authorities fight to get on top of the highly infectious Delta variant. "If we were to open, then we would see cases akin ..
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