The country recorded no new cases of covert.

19 new measures were imposed on Auckland's two million residents after three new infections were detected there on the weekend.

The more transmissible UK variant was among the new cases.

A left authorities scrambling to trace the contacts of the family, effective New Zealand's director general of health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield.

Contact tracing enquiries have now identified 109 close contacts outside the household.

This increases in number is predominantly because of a very precautionary approach to people.

Classified is close contacts at a new location of interest, which was a medical center waiting room where the father wasn't in the red line for covert testing.

The Auckland locked down is a first in New Zealand in six months on prompted Australia to suspend its travel bubble with its neighbor.

The arrangement had allowed New Zealanders toe enter Australia without serving a 14 day hotel quarantine period.

Meanwhile, New Zealand is gearing up to start its mass inoculation program.

The first batch of 600,000 Kovar 19 vaccines arrived in the country on Monday.