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NPR: New Zealand investigates a mystery – where did its new cases come from?

By NPR.

Published Aug. 15, 2020 at 8:07 am

New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern takes part in a press conference about the COVID-19 coronavirus at Parliament in Wellington on June 8, 2020. - New Zealand has no active COVID-19 cases after the country's final patient was given the all clear and released from isolation, health authorities said on June 8. (Photo by Marty MELVILLE / AFP)

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After more than three months without any known community spread of the coronavirus in New Zealand, a new outbreak in Auckland has upset the fragile normalcy that had returned in the nation. It was just Tuesday that the government said it had its first cases from an unknown source in 102 days, all within one family.