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New Zeland prime minister Jacinda Ardern has asked citizens to restrict their movements around the country, and cancel all non-essential domestic travel, the Guardian’s Eleanor Ainge Roy reports from Dunedin.
Ardern also asked those aged 70 and over, or with a compromised immune system to stay home for the foreseeable future.
Those who could work from home should now do so, Ardern said, but reassured Kiwis that essential services such as supermarkets and pharmacies would remain open.
There are four alert levels in New Zealand, and the country was currently at stage two.
Ardern took a warm and smiley demeanor for her address, in a bid to reassure New Zealanders in “unprecedented times”. 14 new cases of the virus were confirmed today, bringing the total number of cases to 53. Two of the cases show no link to overseas travel, meaning community transmission may now be underway.
“Protecting New Zealanders from the virus is our number one objective, and we must take decisive action to prevent the worst occurring here,” Ardern said.
“New Zealand is fighting an unprecedented global pandemic. We must fight by going hard and going early with new measures to slow the transmission of the virus.
The number of coronavirus cases keeps rising in Argentina, with 30 new reported cases Friday, brining the tally up to 158, including three deaths so far. The largest number of cases are in the capital city of Buenos Aires and the province of Buenos Aires.
A total of around 200 persons were arrested Friday for violating the nationwide obligatory quarantine announced by President Alberto Fernández Thursday evening. Among them were 13 people arrested at an “hotel alojamiento” (Argentina’s equivalent of a “love motel”), a jogger, a drunk policeman and a doctor who broke her quarantine after testing positive for the virus in the northern province of Chaco.
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