A rush to deep clean, get a test and be vaccinated marked the first day of level three in Raglan following a case of Covid-19.
The case is one of two detected in the Waikato yesterday, with another connected case in Hamilton East.
And alert level 3 was not the shift the tourist town was hoping for in the middle of school holidays.
A pop-up testing station was set up in Raglan for locals who may have symptoms or for those who visited the three locations of interest: Raglan BP on Saturday from 6-6:45pm, Raglan SuperValue supermarket from 5:30-7:30pm on Saturday and Aroha Sushi on Friday from 3:15-4:15pm.
Anyone who visited those locations of interest at those times needs to isolate immediately.
Lines at the testing station have been long.
"Everybody just feels a bit sad, we avoided getting a single case of Covid-19 the first time around, but it's a bit harder to keep Delta out," one local in line said.
"It means you've got to take the lockdowns even more seriously when you know it's actually in town. In the past people have followed the rules but I think it has been a bit more lip service, because you know it's not really here, but it's definitely here right now."
Among the locations of interest is the BP service station on Main Road.
Manager Bharat says since the news, they've been busy getting on top of things.
"Deep cleaning this morning, started around 4:30am," he said.
As it is the only service station in town it was scary news. The school holidays are usually their busiest time.
"It was pretty shocking, this is a small community... We're an essential business, we have to keep going."
But testing numbers are not the only thing on the increase.
Vaccinations numbers are up after a pop-up vaccination centre was opened at Raglan Area School yesterday.
Raglan Ward Councillor Lisa Thomson is thrilled at the numbers over the last 24 hours.
"Got through about 86 vaccinations yesterday. Today we've been pretty constant. We've had about 70 cars come through. So that's quite a lot of people. And what's been really cool is it's a broad spectrum of our community."
Marty White was getting his first dose on Monday.
He admits he has been hesistant but this was the push he needed.
"When it's here and you know it's in the community you just have to bite the bullet. I want to travel. America's going to open up its borders at the end of the year. I want to start travelling again, I miss going surfing, snowboarding.
"If I want to do that, you've got no option really."
The timing of alert level three has coincided with the first week of the school holidays.
It is a worry for local workers and businesses owners like Dean Teddy who owns George's Beach Club Restaurant in the town centre.
"The two week holiday period boosts the Raglan business - at least doubles it."
Like many other businesses he's packing down and taking excess food home - takeaways are not viable without visitors.
They will have to wait until next week to see when they can get back to businesses as usual.
