A further announcement on Wednesday around alert levels could dictate which go ahead and which don’t. Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival is scheduled to run from February 20 to 28 with over 40 events scheduled for the seven days. For festival general manager Geoff Turkington one of the main concerns is that many of the artists are Auckland based. “At this stage we are going ahead as planned, but we are monitoring the situation incredibly closely.”
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Otago University epidemiologist Professor David Skegg says it’s no surprise Auckland is going back into lockdown. He said there are contingency plans should the alert levels change.