April: A month all about living in lockdown
Stafford Street, Timaru, is almost deserted on a Friday afternoon in April 2020 during lockdown. April was all about life in lockdown, but the rules didn’t sit well with everyone. In the fourth instalment in our series looking back on the year that was, Doug Sail remembers a month of long days – which for many were spent entirely at home. One in 10 people spoken to by police in early April were ignoring self-isolation rules in South Canterbury, Aoraki area commander Inspector Dave Gaskin revealed. With the country in Level 4 lockdown, which started on March 26, Gaskin told The Timaru H...