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Auckland prepares for lockdown as mystery Covid-19 cases emerge
COVID-19 | New Zealanders on Wednesday scrambled to stock up on essentials as the country's biggest city prepared to go into lockdown again, following new cases of the coronavirus that ended a 102-day record run without any new infections.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced overnight that she was shutting down Auckland after four new cases of Covid-19 were discovered in the city from the same family, despite the international borders being shut to foreigners and returning New Zealanders put in mandatory quarantine...
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