New Zealand to enter lockdown after single coronavirus case found

“We have seen what happens elsewhere if we fail to get on top of it,” said the New Zealand Prime Minister

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Picture: Nick Perry/AP

New Zealand’s government has taken drastic action by putting the entire nation into a strict lockdown for at least three days after finding a single case of coronavirus infection in the community.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern invoked some of the stirring rhetoric she used early in the pandemic by urging the “team of five million” – New Zealand’s population – to go hard and early in trying to eliminate the latest outbreak.