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.