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.
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“This is good news,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
The nation’s largest city was put into lockdown on Sunday after three unexplained cases were found in the community. It was the first lockdown in six months in a nation which so far has managed to successfully stamp out the spread of the disease.
The move to end the lockdown came as health authorities said the outbreak had grown by three cases to six in total. But Ardern said the additional cases were to be expected because they involved close contacts. Ramped-up testing indicates the outbreak hasn’t spread far. Laboratories processed more than 17,000 individual tests on Tuesday, authorities said, and they also tested wastewater samples, which came back negative.
Indian-origin expert on diseases dies
An Indian-origin doctor, who became internationally renowned as an expert on stopping the spread of communicable diseases via air travel, has died, a media report said.
Dr Jarnail Singh, 67, was the first chairman of the Civil Aviation Medical Board of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore. The expert coordinated the international response during the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003.
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