Customers queue to enter a department store in Christchurch ahead of the lockdown last week.
Offices and schools were shut and all non-essential services, bars, restaurants, cafes, gyms, cinemas, pools, museums, libraries and playgrounds were closed. “While on the face of it that might seem a heartening number relative to some of the other figures we have had now, I want to emphasise it’s too early to assess if our measures are successfully slowing Covid-19,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said in a news conference.
Ardern has said she wants to see more testing as it was needed to stamp out the virus and guard against community transmission.
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