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New Zealand Slowly Returns to Normal After Lockdown

VOA News

   New Zealanders clogged the drive thru lines of fast food restaurants
   Tuesday as they began venturing outside at the end of a strict
   coronavirus lockdown period.

   An estimated 400,000 people were expected to leave their homes to go
   back to their offices or resume recreational pursuits like golfing,
   surfing, fishing and hunting as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern eased the
   lockdown, one of the strictest imposed anywhere in the world in
   response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

   As of Tuesday, Wellington reported two new cases in the country,
   raising the total number of infections to 1,124 with 19 deaths among
   its 5 million citizens.

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