New Zealand's daily Covid-19 cases cross 200 for first time in pandemic November 06, 2021 at 12:35AM

New Zealand's 206 new daily community infections on Saturday carried it past the double-hundred mark for the first time during the coronavirus pandemic, as the nation scrambles to vaccinate its population of 5 million. The most populous city of Auckland, which reported 200 of the new cases, has lived under curbs for nearly three months as it battles an outbreak of the infectious Delta variant.