Auckland is at alert level 3, asking residents must stay at home and only leave for essential work and travel.
The rest of the country is at alert level 2, in which schools remain open but gatherings must not exceed 100 people.
Police checkpoints were set up overnight on Sunday to stop non-essential travel out of the city. Eight checkpoints on the outskirts of Auckland will be stopping vehicles and questioning drivers, ensuring there is no non-essential movement through the region, a police spokesperson said on Monday. From midnight [Sunday], anyone attempting to travel across the regional boundaries should expect to be stopped and asked for proof of essential travel.
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Police say they are moving three checkpoints north of Auckland back to where the legal boundary sits which was used during the last lockdown.
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Residents of the Northland town of Mangawhai Heads had a day of absolute confusion as to which alert level they were in.
The Health Order to implement the alert level changes and the official government Covid-19 website showed maps with the town outside of the Auckland area.
However, police checkpoints had been set up to encompass the town within the Auckland zone.
While there have been some expected delays,
Police report the public have been cooperative and
understanding.
Eight checkpoints were set up around
Auckland’s regional boundaries as the Alert Level 3
restrictions came into effect at midnight.
Police are
in the process of setting up additional checkpoints, and
refining the location of existing checkpoints to ensure they
are as close as possible to the boundary. These will all be
in place by 6:00pm this evening, and will remain in place
until midnight Wednesday 17 February.
The current
three existing checkpoints north of Auckland will be
relocated back to the same five locations from the last