Auckland, New Zealand’s biggest city, emerged on Sunday from a strict weeklong lockdown imposed after a community cluster of the more contagious UK coronavirus variant.
There were no new local COVID-19 cases recorded on Sunday, health officials said, allowing for the restrictions to ease. If no community cases are confirmed during the rest of Sunday, it would make a full seven days since the last community case.
There are still limits on public gathering in the city of nearly two million, however, and masks are obligatory on public transport.
Footage on TVNZ, New Zealand’s state-owned television network, showed people lining up at coffee shops o…
Keep on reading: New Zealand’s Auckland emerges from weeklong coronavirus lockdown