COVID-19 | UPDATED 3.23PM | New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern today extended a lockdown in the country's biggest city in response to the first national coronavirus outbreak in months, sticking with a "go early, go hard" approach she said has proven effective.

Ardern (above) said genomic testing has shown the latest outbreak is a different strain to the original outbreak in New Zealand earlier in the year, suggesting it was new to the country...