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“What has been really at the center of our response has been some fundamentals around testing, contact tracing, isolation,” Ardern said.

Ardern, 40, leveraged her success battling Covid-19 into an unprecedented majority at the October 17 election, leading her centre-left Labour Party to its biggest win since World War II.

The result will give Labour an outright majority in Parliament, the first time any party has achieved that since New Zealand implemented a proportional voting system 24 years ago.

The Auckland outbreak also prompted Ardern to postpone the election by a month and helped increase the early voter turnout.