New Zealand On Alert After 4 Cases Of COVID-19 Emerge From Unknown Source
The cases came after 102 days with no community spread. The four are members of the same family. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a three-day period of high restrictions due to the new cluster.
by Laurel Wamsley
Aug 11, 2020
2 minutes
More than three months after its last case of community spread, New Zealand has four new cases of the coronavirus from an unknown source. The island nation, seen as a global exemplar in the battle to contain the coronavirus, moved quickly to identify the source of transmission and halt further spread.
All four cases are members of the same family, who live in South Auckland,
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