New Zealand reports two new cases of Covid-19 community transmission

Pair are siblings who attend south Auckland’s Papatoetoe high school and know student at the centre of latest cluster

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New Zealand has reported two new locally transmitted cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday, just hours before authorities were due to announce whether a lockdown in the country’s biggest city of Auckland would be extended.

The pair were siblings who attend south Auckland’s Papatoetoe high school and knew the student at the centre of the city’s latest community cluster.

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