 A New Zealand reported 104 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, including the first community case of the virus in the country's South Island in nearly a year, health officials have said. New Zealand reported 104 new coronavirus infections on Saturday, including the first community case of the virus in the country's South Island in nearly a year health officials said. Most of the new infections were reported in Auckland, New Zealand's largest city has been under a strict lockdown for more than two months. Looser restrictions are in place in most of the rest of the country of five million people. The risks of a further spread from the case reported in Blenheim in the northeast of the South Island remained low, health officials said. On Friday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that New Zealand will end its strict lockdown measures and restore more freedoms only when 90% of its eligible population is fully vaccinated. As of Saturday, 70% of those eligible were fully inoculated. Once the poster child for Stampy Out Covid-19, New Zealand has been unable to beat an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant of Covid-19, centered in Auckland, forcing Ardern to abandon her elimination strategy and switch to living with the virus. New Zealand has recorded 28 coronavirus-related deaths so far in the pandemic. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.