12 Aug 2021

Covid-19: NZ warned to prepare for snap Alert Level 4 lockdowns

From Morning Report, 7:09 am on 12 August 2021

Just one community case of Covid-19 could now be enough to push the country straight into strict lockdown.

That's the warning from Government ahead of its official response this morning to a freshly released report on reopening New Zealand's borders.

The highly anticipated report, complied by a group led by Sir David Skegg, predicts New Zealand is likely to experience an outbreak of the Delta variant, like the one in Sydney.

Political reporter Anneke Smith has more.