As it happened: Jacinda Ardern, Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield provide COVID-19 update

  • 29/08/2021

This livestream has finished.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield are providing a COVID-19 update at the Beehive.

New Zealand has now been under COVID-19 alert level 4 restrictions for almost two weeks.

Most of the country is on track to move out of alert level 4 at the planned time of 11:59pm on Tuesday. Auckland will remain under a stringent lockdown beyond that time, given the super city is the epicenter of the outbreak.

Eighty-two new community cases of COVID-19 were reported on Saturday - the biggest daily increase of New Zealand's Delta outbreak.

Watch the livestream.