NZ to enter lockdown to fight COVID 19

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Supplied video obtained Monday, March 23, 2020 of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaking at a press conference in Parliament House, Wellington. Ms Ardern says authorities believe there is now COVID-19 transmission within New Zealand's communities. "If community transmission takes off in New Zealand the number of cases will double every five days," she says. "If that happens unchecked, our health system will be inundated and tens of thousands of New Zealanders will die. "There is no easy way to say that but it is the reality we have seen overseas and the possibility that we must face here. "Now is the time to act. That's why cabinet met today and agreed that effective immediately we will move to alert level three nationwide. After 48 hours we will move to level four." (AAP VIDEO/Supplied/Jacinda Ardern)

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