Monday's announcement of a continuation of the level 3 lockdown has been met with trepidation by Auckland businesses - with many teetering on the brink of collapse.
The current restrictions - Auckland at alert level 3, and the rest of the country at level 2 - had been due to lift at midnight Wednesday.
But with handfuls of new Covid-19 cases continuing to be diagnosed in Auckland each day, the ministers decided the risk of further spread was too great to lift the lockdown just yet.
Matthew Theunissen reports.
