New Zealand will lift a Covid-19 lockdown on nearly two million people on Sunday, as authorities say they are confident that a virus cluster in the country's largest city has been contained.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said the stay-at-home order for Auckland will end early Sunday, one week after it was imposed in response to a mystery case that contact tracing could not explain.
It later emerged that family members of the infected person had defied isolation orders, socialising with friends who later tested positive for Covid-19.
With the case's origins solved, quarantine protocols were enforced and Ms Ardern said the cluster had been limited to 15 cases, allowing Aucklanders to leave their homes. "This plan is consistent with our