Aucklanders try forging letters, driving through paddocks to flee locked-down city

Driving through paddocks, faking Covid tests and forging exemption letters – they’re all strategies people have used while trying to escape Auckland in recent days, NZ Herald reports. Police said in a statement there were still “a few isolated incidents” where people tried to breach the alert level 4 boundaries. “Police will continue to stop and question motorists travelling through the checkpoint and enforcement action will be considered for people deliberately attempting to breach the restrictions, which are in place to help keep everyone safe and reduce any spread of Covid-19 in the community.”