Teens on the run for a week in Covid alert level 4 after escape Youth Justice facility

Two teenagers aged 13 and 14 who escaped from a youth justice facility, have been on the run for a week during level 4 lockdown – a situation described as “utterly outrageous”, NZ Herald reports. Manurewa-Papakura Ward councillor Daniel Newman said he did not know how they escaped the Whakatakapokai Youth Justice facility in Weymouth. “The fact that these young people are at large in South Auckland in Level 4 is absolutely unforgivable because we are living under the most stringent public health order,” he said.