New Zealand scrambles to find source of new virus infections

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Picture: Mark Mitchell/New Zealand Herald via AP

Health authorities in New Zealand were scrambling on Wednesday to trace the source of a new outbreak of the coronavirus as the nation’s largest city went back into lockdown.

Authorities had confirmed four cases of the virus in one Auckland household from an unknown source and were awaiting the test results of four more people they suspect have infections — two work colleagues and two relatives of those in the house.