New Zealand Auckland, New Zealand’s biggest city, lifted a three-day lockdown that the government had introduced following the emergence of new cases of the coronavirus. The lockdown in the city of two million was short-lived — Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she was confident the outbreak was contained and the three people who contracted COVID-19 were in isolation. At the end of January, Stranger’s Guide reported that Ardern said the country’s borders would likely remain closed to most of the world for the rest of the year. “We either need the confidence that being vaccinated means you don’t pass Covid-19...