WELLINGTON: New Zealand reported 11 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday , all in locked down Auckland, its biggest city, as the country looks to limit the spread of the highly transmissible Delta variant of the coronavirus.
The latest daily number was down from the 13 infections recorded on Thursday and the lowest any day this week, taking the total number of infections from the current outbreak, which started in mid-August, to 879. The government will decide on Monday whether the tight lockdown in Auckland would be eased or extended.
"I absolutely understand people in Auckland wanting to see the alert levels come down. They have been doing it tough," Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson said at a news conference. "But the thing that has served us well is being careful and also making sure when we do a job we do it once and we do it right."
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