The Government has announced its decision to move Auckland to alert level 1 at 11:59pm on Wednesday, October 7.
This puts Auckland with the rest of the country and means that from Thursday, people can gather with as many people as they want, and there are no extra restrictions on businesses.
Businesses, workplaces and public transport legally must continue to display QR codes.
Prime minister Jacinda Ardern says all signs now point to Auckland’s cluster being under control with no new cases in the cluster for 10 days, and only one case in the last two weeks.
Just five people from the cluster are yet to recover from COVID-19.
There was now a 95% chance that the cluster had been eliminated, according to new modelling by Te Pūnaha Matahini.
In making the announcement Ardern thanked the “team of five million” and says for many the recent restrictions “have felt harder … it felt longer and dragged on”.
“As we come together again as a country in level 1, we can let ourselves once again feel pride that we managed to get to that position together,” Ardern says.
