No new cases of Covid-19 on Sunday, but Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern warns it is "highly likely' more are coming. The thousands of Aucklanders who fled the city ahead of the alert level 3 lockdown should return home and stick to the rules, Dr Siouxsie Wiles says. The Auckland University microbiologist and science communicator took to Twitter to express her frustration at reports of Auckland residents heading to their baches after the latest community case was announced. There was also seven times as much traffic heading east on SH2 at 11pm. Abigail Dougherty/Stuff Traffic hit State Highway 1 at Te Hana, at Auckland’s northernmost point, when the alert level 3 lockdown last announced on February 15.

Source: Stuff February 28, 2021 02:52 UTC