![]() ![]() It took until September 21 for Auckland to move out of level four and down into level three. How many days Auckland spent at level four How many days the entire country spent at level fourĪfter we all shifted into lockdown on August 17, all of the country south of Auckland shifted into alert level three on August 31. But to put it another way: you could have watched the Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – a famously too-long movie – about 780 times during lockdown. Weirdly, this feels like less time to me. Remember how long the summer holidays used to be as a kid? Those were shorter too. Remember how long a term at school used to feel? Those were shorter. It almost feels… longer to see it written out this way. That’s how long lockdown has been, in weeks “Shit”, the entire country said in unison. It was confirmed in a brief press release from the Ministry of Health: “A positive case of Covid-19 has been identified in the community early this afternoon and is now under investigation,” read the email. The first community case of delta was announced on the afternoon of August 17. The number of days Auckland spent under delta restrictions In celebration of a return to some form of normality, and as a way of putting the past few bleak months behind us, here’s the lockdown broken down into numbers: an easily digestible record of what will hopefully be New Zealand’s final Covid lockdown. It plunged the entire country back into a strict level four lockdown, with Auckland remaining under at least level three restrictions – meaning work from home if you can, no restaurants, no movies, no heaps of other stuff – ever since. On the afternoon of August 17, a single case of the delta variant was detected in the community. ![]() It’s taken a long time to get here, for Auckland especially. It’s a lot like the old normal except vaccine passes and masks have become as important as keys and wallets when leaving the house. Today marks the first day of the traffic light framework, with Auckland – and the rest of the country – moving into the “new normal”. With Aucklanders waking up to their first day of relative freedom since August, Stewart Sowman-Lund crunches the numbers on the country’s longest lockdown. ![]()
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