Updated On: 18 February, 2021 07:36 AM IST | Wellington | Agencies
Life returns to normal in island nation at a time when other parts of the world are staring at another wave

A shipment of 60,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine is unloaded in Auckland as New Zealand receives its first batch on Monday. Pic/AP/PTI
A lockdown in the New Zealand city of Auckland would end at midnight, the government announced Wednesday after concluding a coronavirus outbreak had been contained, amid fears of a second wave in other parts of the world, particularly in Brazil and African nations.
“This is good news,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.