<span style="color: #222222;">In New Zealand, 206 new daily community infections on Saturday carried it past the double-hundred mark for the first time during the Corona virus pandemic. The nation scrambled to vaccinate its population of five million.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> The most populous city of Auckland, which reported 200 of the new cases, has lived under COVID-19 curbs for nearly three months as it battles an outbreak of the infectious Delta variant, although restrictions are expected to ease on Monday.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, she wanted Auckland residents to be able to travel for the southern hemisphere summer and Christmas.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Saturday's cases served to remind people of the importance of vaccination as the number one protection against the virus, the Health Ministry said in a statement. It said, 78 per cent of New Zealanders aged 12 years and above had been fully vaccinated, while 89 per cent had a first dose till yesterday.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">  </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Once praised globally for stamping out COVID-19, New Zealand has been unable to vanquish the Delta outbreak in Auckland, forcing Ms Ardern to abandon a strategy of eliminating the virus in favour of efforts to live with it. </span><br />