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New Zealand authorities announced a nationwide lockdown on Tuesday after its largest city, Auckland, reported the country\u2019s first local Covid-19 case in nearly six months, posing a threat to the country\u2019s successful \u2018zero-Covid\u2019 strategy that has so far managed to keep the more infectious delta variant of the virus at bay.<\/p>

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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that Auckland and the town of Coromandel will enter a seven-day lockdown while the rest of the country will be locked for the next three days.<\/p>\n

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The new case has triggered \u2018Alert Level 4\u2019\u2014the highest pandemic alert level across the country, which means a stringent stay-at-home order is put in place with all physical contact being limited to household members.<\/p>

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While the single case has not been confirmed as a delta variant case, Ardern said the authorities are working under the presumption that it has been caused by the highly infectious variant.<\/p>

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The 58-year-old man who tested positive isn\u2019t vaccinated and over the weekend he and his fully vaccinated wife traveled to the small town of Coromandel\u2014located on the western side of New Zealand\u2019s North Island.<\/p>\n

Authorities said they have identified 23 locations of interest\u201410 in Auckland and 13 in Coromandel\u2014visited by the man while he was infectious.<\/p>

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The source of the man\u2019s infection is yet to be identified as he has no obvious link to any cases reported at New Zealand\u2019s borders, raising fears that there may be other undetected cases spreading in the community.<\/p>\n

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