Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made the announcement at a briefing at 9pm last night saying that the alert level changes would come in from 6am today and would be in place for seven days.
She said Cabinet would assess the alert levels but it was likely that Auckland would remain in alert level 3 for the full seven days.
Ardern said the announcement comes after two new Covid-19 community cases that could not be directly linked to earlier cases.
