Ms Ardern told TVNZ's
Breakfast the strange public request from the High Commission for more oxygen was for a local staff member who lived on the compound and had become ill with COVID-19.
She said the complex itself had been in lockdown a better part of the year and many New Zealand staff had already been sent home to New Zealand.
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It comes after a bizarre series of events on Sunday (NZ time) when the New Zealand High Commission in India sent out a tweet asking the youth leader of India's main opposition party for help supplying oxygen.