AUCKLAND: New Zealand put limitations on nursing homes across the nation on Wednesday after its 102-day streak without the coronavirus finished, as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern indicated that following month’s overall political race could be deferred as a result of the flare-up.
Ardern said specialists were scrambling to follow any individual who had been in contact with four Auckland inhabitants who tried positive Tuesday, finishing the fantasy run in which the infection had been contained at New Zealand’s fringes.
A three-day stay-at-home request for Auckland, New Zealand’s greatest city with a populace of 1.5 million, was declared on Tuesday night and went into power at noon on Wednesday.
Police in facemasks kept an eye on detours on significant streets in Auckland to implement the new measures.
Ardern said wellbeing authorities were additionally securing matured consideration homes the nation over on the grounds that they could go about as transmission hotspots.
“I understand how amazingly troublesome this will be for the individuals who have friends and family in these offices, yet it’s the most grounded way we can secure and take care of them,” she said.
There was alarm purchasing at grocery stores across New Zealand and colossal lines at coronavirus testing stations as Kiwis grappled with the reappearance of an infection many idea had been crushed.
