Auckland, New Zealand in Lockdown: Airlines alerted

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New Zealand has been the international standard in fighting COVID-19 – and the country is doing it again

  1. New Zealand is not taking any chances in inviting COVID-19 back into its country
  2. A lockdown announced after just one positive test of a family
  3. Airlines alerted since the sick person worked for LSG Skychef

Auckland, New Zealand is in lockdown

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardernย ordered the three-day lockdown for Auckland after a couple and their daughter tested positive in the nation widely hailed for virtually eliminating the spread of the contagion.

The new community cases make justย four in the last three monthsย โ€” with the lockdown the first inย New Zealandย in six months.

“We have stamped out the virus before and we will do it again,” Ardern told a news conference in the capital, Wellington.

The level 3 restrictions require everyone to stay home except for essential shopping and essential work. It will also force a delay in Americaโ€™s Cup sailing regatta.

“Three days should give us enough time to gather further information, undertake large-scale testing and establish if there has been wider community transmission,” Ardern said. “That is what we believe the cautious approach requires and itโ€™s the right thing to do.”

Airlines were alerted because the woman in the infected family works for an airline catering company, LSG Sky Chefs, where she mostly works in laundry facilities, officials said. She had not been going aboard planes.

Her unidentified family was the first confirmed infection since a traveler returning fromย Europeย tested positive on Jan. 24, which was the first case in two months.

New Zealand, with a population of 5 million, has reported a total ofย just over 2,330 casesย and 25 deaths since the pandemic started.

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Juergen T Steinmetz

Juergen Thomas Steinmetz has continuously worked in the travel and tourism industry since he was a teenager in Germany (1977).
He founded eTurboNews in 1999 as the first online newsletter for the global travel tourism industry.

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