Travelers wear masks at Wellington Airport as NZ lockdown begins

Travelers arriving at Wellington Airport wear face masks after Auckland was put into level 3 lockdown and the rest of New Zealand into level 2. A three-day stay-at-home order for Auckland, New Zealand's biggest city with a population of 1.5 million, was announced on Tuesday night and went into force at lunchtime on Wednesday.

New Zealand had been held up by the World Health Organization as an example of how to contain the disease after recording only 22 deaths in a population of five million and preventing community transmission for more than three months.