National party leader Simon Bridges scraps political truce, telling PM extending lockdown does more harm than lifting it
Jacinda Ardern’s political opponents have condemned her decision to keep the country’s tough lockdown restrictions in place for a further five days beyond the initial four-week lockdown period.
“We have stopped a wave of devastation,” the prime ministersaid on Monday as she announced that the strictest period of national shutdown would continue until just before midnight on Monday 27 April. Marginally looser rules – level-3 restrictions – will then be in place until 11 May.
