Livestream: Jacinda Ardern, Dr Ashley Bloomfield provide NZ COVID-19 update on first day of lockdown

  • 18/08/2021

The Prime Minister and Director-General of Health will provide an update on COVID-19 from the Beehive on Wednesday - the first day of New Zealand's nationwide alert level 4 lockdown.

Jacinda Ardern and Dr Ashley Bloomfield will kick off their press conference from 1pm.

They will be followed by Police Commissioner Andrew Coster, who will discuss the police response to the lockdown.

The press conference comes just a day after it was revealed new coronavirus cases had been detected in the community.

Watch the livestream above.