Coronavirus: Auckland in snap lockdown after UK strain found; Australia suspends travel bubble

Two coronavirus infections that prompted a snap lockdown of New Zealand’s largest city on Monday have been revealed as the country’s first cases of the UK strain.New Zealand’s health ministry said tests had identified that the infections in Auckland were caused by the highly contagious variant first found in the UK, with no link to any other positive cases detected so far in New Zealand.“This result reinforces the decision to take swift and robust action around the latest cases to detect and…

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