Six more infected with virus in New ZealandTwo central Auckland Countdown supermarket stores were closed after separate visitors in the last week tested positive for the coronavirus infection. New Zealand appears to be gaining control over a coronavirus outbreak in Auckland after just five new community infections were reported Wednesday amid record levels of testing and contact tracing. Health authorities have still not figured out how the outbreak began after the country went 102 days without the virus spreading in the community. The discovery of the outbreak last week prompted authorities to put the nation’s largest city into a two-week lockdown..-AP. Photo: new Zealand Herald.

Source: The Standard August 19, 2020 04:30 UTC