Covid-19: Auckland locals worried in third lockdown

Published: Feb. 15, 2021, 6:09 p.m.

Clinicians are wading through a flood of Covid-19 tests, in the hope that Auckland can escape Alert Level 3 on Wednesday night. Testing centres have been swamped - close to 4000 community swabs were taken in Auckland from Sunday until Monday night. The positive results, all from a single household in the suburb of Papatoetoe, have been confirmed to be the more transmissible UK variant. At testing centres in Auckland, reporter Chen Liu spoke to several worried locals.