18 Aug 2021

NZ wakes up to lockdown as officials scramble to locate case

From Morning Report, 6:38 am on 18 August 2021

For the first time since March last year, New Zealand is waking up to a strict national lockdown. The country went into Alert Level 4 at midnight, following the discovery of a community case on the North Shore. With no clear link to the border, health officials are now scrambling to work out how the Auckland man could have caught the virus. Our political reporter Anneke Smith has more.