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The three positive cases are friends who travelled to the nearby city of Suzhou together last week, Shanghai health authorities said

It had been due to end at midnight on friday local time. all of the country will remain at its highest level of covid restrictions, after recording 11 new cases. on tuesday, new zealand was plunged into a national lockdown when it announced one local case of the delta variant. the total number of cases in the outbreak has now hit 31. our correspondent shaimaa khalil gave us this update. the whole of new zealand is going to remain under the strictest lockdown — that's level four lockdown until tuesday. this is the first time in more than a year that a level four lockdown has been imposed in n...

Gave us this update. the whole of new zealand is going to remain under the strictest lockdown, that's level four lockdown until tuesday. this is the first time in more than a year that a level four lockdown has been imposed in new zealand. of course, this is a country that's been hailed as a success story in eliminating covid—19 and controlling outbreaks by snap lockdowns. the real concern, of course, is this is the delta variant and they're really, really concerned about the spread of the outbreak. now it's concentrated in auckland. so there are indications that new zealand's largest city i...

A few minutes, we are going to turn to a incredible science story. we are told these images are going to help us understand the power of black holes. and we will get into why in a minute. now, do these —— to new zealand. a nationwide lockdown is in force in new zealand, after the detection of the first community case of covid in six months. the country has seen just 23 covid deaths but has only vaccinated about a fifth of its population. here's more from our correspondent, shaimaa khalil. they've done so well. it's the first case in six months, so they have something to protect, this succe...

Jacinda ardern and the health officials are saying, it is better to go hard and fast. when she was announcing the phases new zealand was going to go through to open or ease the restrictions on the borders last week, she said if we got one case of the delta variant it was going to be level four lockdown, the harshest level of the stay at home orders meaning that people cannot go out of their houses except for the four essential reasons. interestingly, while they were going for the elimination policy which was the border closures and snap lockdowns, new zealand has been trying to ramp up vaccina...