New Zealand's first community Covid-19 case in six months is the Delta variant -- and genome sequencing shows that it's linked to the growing outbreak in neighboring Australia, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.
The country of five million people went into a nationwide lockdown late Tuesday night, hours after confirming a Covid-19 case, and on Wednesday, New Zealand authorities announced they had confirmed another six positive cases all linked to the first case. One of the new cases worked at a hospital in Auckland. The outbreak marks the first time New Zealand has confirmed the presence of the contagious Delta variant in the community.
"Our case has originated in Australia," Ardern said."And now the job we have is to work through how and when it got here."Daily reported Covid-19 cases New Zealand -- like neighboring Australia -- has been slow to vaccinate. Less than 20% of the population are fully vaccinated, according to data collated by CNN.
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