WELLINGTON (Reuters) – All remaining restrictions in New Zealand’s largest city Auckland have been lifted after no locally transmitted cases of coronavirus were reported for two weeks, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Friday. Ardern imposed a seven-day lockdown on the city of 1.7 million after a cluster of cases were detected domestically. The lockdown was eased earlier this month but some restrictions were retained, including limits on large public gatherings under an alert level two setting. Ardern said the city will now join the rest of the country in alert level one, which has no restrictions on gatherings or activity. “I know everyone in Auckland will be looking forward to a weekend with fewer restrictions,” Ardern said at a news conference.

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