Cabinet has decided Wellington's alert level 2 will continue for another 48 hours.
Photo: RNZ / Emma Hatton
The rest of the country remains in alert level 1.
The alert level was raised to level 2 after a Sydney man travelled to Wellington last weekend visiting tourist attractions, bars and restaurants before testing positive for highly contagious Delta variant of Covid-19 when he returned home.
Review the day's updates on RNZ's live blog:
Quarantine free travel from all Australian states and territories will be paused from 10.30pm tonight until 11.59pmn on Tuesday.
There are still no new community cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand, which means it now looks fairly unlikely there will be a major outbreak, an epidemiologist says.
Covid-19 testing has slowed down in Wellington, but Friday saw the city's SCL laboratory process a record 3760 tests.
The Australian traveller with Covid-19 who visited Wellington has the Delta variant - New South Wales officials have confirmed.
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