New Zealand set to ease Covid restrictions and end lockdowns from December

New ‘traffic light’ system will see vaccinated people granted significantly greater freedoms than those who are unvaccinated

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New Zealand will adopt a new system of living with coronavirus from 3 December, ending tough coronavirus measures and allowing businesses to operate in its biggest city, prime minister Jacinda Ardern has said.

New Zealand has been unable to beat an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant of Covid-19 centred in Auckland, forcing Ardern to abandon her acclaimed elimination strategy and switch to a system of treating the virus as endemic. The country’s biggest city, Auckland, has been in lockdown for more than 90 days.

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