South Auckland marae leaders urge communities to be more vigilant as community transmission spreads
1 Mar, 2021 01:25 AM
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she knows many New Zealanders were upset, frustrated and angry about the Covid rulebreakers which plunged Auckland into lockdown.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she knows many New Zealanders were upset, frustrated and angry about the Covid rulebreakers which plunged Auckland into lockdown.
Reporter, NZ Herald
South Auckland leaders are calling on their communities to act with urgency and vigilance as Covid-19 community transmission hits closer to home.
Manurewa Marae, Papakura Marae, Te Puea Memorial Marae and Ngā Whare Waatea Marae, Turuki Healthcare and the Manukau Urban Māori Authority are feeling pressures from the latest lockdown due to the spike in community transmission.
Now people were used to lockdowns, there was less of a sense of panic, he said. Two hundred people applied for food parcels in the space of an hour on Monday morning after a post went up on the Buttabean Motivation food bank page. Dave Letele, who runs the Manukau food bank, said the snap lockdown had put a lot of pressure on families who often relied on free school meals to feed their children. Many families would only have enough food in the pantry for one meal a day, he said, but with everyone at home all the time that was quickly used up.