COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand
The COVID-19 pandemic in New Zealand is part of the ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The first case of the disease in New Zealand was reported on 28 February 2020. , the country has had a total of 2,740 cases (2,384 confirmed and 356 probable). 26 people have died from the virus, with cases recorded in all twenty district health board (DHB) areas. The pandemic peaked in early April 2020, with 89 new cases recorded per day and 929 active cases. A total of 1,852,557 COVID tests have been carried out as of 22 March 2021.

All borders and entry ports of New Zealand were closed to non-residents on 19 March 2020, with returning citizens and residents being required to self-isolate. From 10 April 2020, all people arriving by air had to go into two weeks of managed isolation in adapted commercial hotels. Travel from Australia opened up from 19 April 2021, and from the Cook Islands on 19 May.

A four-level alert level system was introduced on 21 March 2020 to manage the outbreak within New Zealand. Since then, after a nationwide lockdown from March to May 2020, regionalised alert level changes have been used, where the Auckland Region has entered lockdown twice, in August–September 2020 and February–March 2021.
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