After three members of a family in New Zealand’s largest city tested positive for the coronavirus, the city of Auckland has gone into lockdown — and the entire country is on high alert.
In a televised address Sunday evening, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the country is taking a “precautionary approach that has served us so well as a country.”
With just 2,330 confirmed cases and 25 deaths since the coronavirus pandemic began, the island nation has been one of the most successful countries in the world at controlling the spread of the coronavirus. This has been due in large part to its quick and forceful countermeasures whenever a new virus case is detected.
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