Following three Corona incidents, New Zealand has returned to its closed version • Stores and restaurants are operating but trains are down and there is no entry and exit from the country's largest city
Queue for corona tests in Auckland // Photo: AFP
Precisely here, in New Zealand, the same country in whose territory a huge rock band music show took place a few days ago in a stadium full of 30,000 people in the crowd, who built quite tightly, because of three new Corona cases discovered here.
The three carriers are from one family, so the government in the state decided to act immediately and impose a Grade 3 closure on the city of Auckland for 72 hours.
The rest of the country was imposed a Grade 2 closure for the same period, from yesterday.
A Grade 3 closure here means that people in Auckland are not allowed to leave the city and must reduce their interaction with other people, as well as wear a mask on public transport.
They are allowed to leave the house only for necessary purposes.
Even police were deployed to prevent people from leaving the Auckland area.
And that's not all.
Air New Zealand has announced that it will no longer provide meals or beverages on its flights, after it became clear that one of the new cases discovered was that of a woman who worked in its catering service.
Many people stayed in the same places where the family of the three new carriers stayed, so crowds had to be tested to make sure they were not infected with the virus, both in Auckland and in the Trunky area, where the family recently spent time.
Passengers who have booked an international flight are allowed to arrive at the airport.
Trains are inactive, but ferries between the South Island and the North Island of New Zealand continue to sail, without providing food and beverage services.
Like Israel, in the country where I live, the British mutation is the "popular" one.
The Prime Minister's Office and the Ministry of Health said that the latest diagnoses were of the British variant of the virus.
In other districts, citizens must also reduce their contacts with other people, but there is no panic.
However, stores and restaurants are once again seeing a renewed "growth" of partitions, in order to separate service providers from customers.
I am now south of Dunedin, pedaling around the southern island for three weeks.
The situation is normal - relatively - but with social distance.
The author is a resident of New Zealand
