New Zealand's Auckland emerges from lockdown, Australia starts AstraZeneca vaccinations


  • World
  • Sunday, 07 Mar 2021

FILE PHOTO: A rainbow appears on the Auckland skyline featuring Sky Tower in New Zealand, July 8, 2017. REUTERS/Jason Reed

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Auckland, New Zealand's biggest city, emerged on Sunday from a strict weeklong lockdown imposed after a community cluster of the more contagious British coronavirus variant.

There were no new local COVID-19 cases recorded on Sunday, health officials said, marking a full week of no community transmissions across the country.

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