New Zealand to lockdown after 1st COVID-19 case in 6 months

New Zealand said Tuesday it will move into a snap three-day nationwide lockdown from 11:59 p.m., after reporting its first case of COVID-19 in the community in six months.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told a news conference that the country will move to alert level four, its highest level of restrictions, after a 58-year-old man in its largest city of Auckland tested positive for the coronavirus earlier in the afternoon.Though it is yet to be determined which strain of the virus the man is infected with, authorities must assume it is the highly contagious Delta variant and move hard and fas…READ FULL ARTICLE