All of New Zealand will move to Alert Level 4 lockdown for three days from 11:59pm Tuesday, as a Covid-19 case in the community in Auckland threatens the country with a Delta variant outbreak.
Auckland and Coromandel township will most likely stay in Level 4 for seven days.
Auckland Mayor Phil Goff tells Lisa Owen he supports the move fully.
"It's really disappointing this has happened now but scarcely surprising.
"Anybody that's watched the situation across the Tasman certainly knows a soft response to this new Delta variant simply doesn't work.
"If you're going do it, go hard go decisively, that's what the government's done, and I think most New Zealand will get behind them.
"This will be really hard for some people, those that are separated from their families. It will be tough for them. Businesses and people whose incomes are affected, it will be tough for them as well."
Goff said he was informed of the case at about 2pm.
"I was due to meet the Prime Minister this afternoon, and ironically I was with Dr Bloomfield yesterday and we talked about [Delta].
"We both agreed that it was nearly inevitable that there would be some outbreak given, given the pattern everywhere else around the world, but we were treasuring each day that we could keep New Zealanders free from that and living normally.
"Let's take the action let's do it properly, we've done it before, we've been there, we've succeeded before, we'll do it again."
