New Zealand’s Auckland Starts Second Lockdown in Month

New Zealand’s Auckland Starts Second Lockdown in Month
Quiet streets in Auckland, New Zealand, as a seven day level 3 lockdown starts on Feb. 28, 2021. Fiona Goodall/Getty Images
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MELBOURNE—Auckland, New Zealand’s biggest city, woke up on Sunday morning to a second lockdown in a month as health authorities try to rein in a coronavirus cluster of the more contagious UK variant.

The seven-day lockdown, announced late Saturday by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, follows a three-day stay-at-home order in mid-February after a local emergence of the UK variant of the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19.