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WELLINGTON - New Zealand will next week ease some of the world’s strictest lockdown measures taken to tackle the novel coronavirus pandemic, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday, after a month of tight restrictions slowed the spread of the disease.
New Zealand move out of alert level 4 on April 27, a few days longer than the scheduled one-month lockdown, after which it will be in alert level 3 for two weeks, Ardern said in a news conference. Shops, malls, hardware stores and restaurants will remain shut under alert level 3, but can permit online or phone purchases.
Some travel would be permitted around the country for essential services and a handful of other cases.
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