they are expanding restrictions in aukland. celina, a dozen new days not a lot but new zee land is using their version of shock and awe to contain this. >> reporter: shock and awe is one way of putting it, kim. they're saying going hard and going early. she's been praised for that approach. back in march new zealand put in place one of the harshest lockdowns and it did work. up until this week they were back to normal. they had a 102 day streak of no new infections. in aukland 1.7 million residents have to stay at home except for essential trips. the rest has increased social distancing measures. a total of 30 cases have been recorded since tuesday. two of the cases are a preschooler and school official. they say they are investigating a variety of theories, one of which include a low possibility that it could have come from imported frozen food packaging. we know it can survive in refrigerated environments. china has projected it on frozen seafood packaging. they made it clear very are pursuing an all out strategy. she said li

as soon as the numbers started to uptick just a little bit, they locked down aukland. they canceled schools, closed nonessential businesses, have police checkpoints set up. you can't travel in and out without a special exemption. you've seen the new zealand numbers start to stabilize and go down. they postponed their national elections by a month. the president is expected to say monday whether some of the lockdown measures can ease. everybody has to play along. you go through this tough period for a short amount of time, test tens of thousands of people. testing an extraordinary amount of people. as an end result, perhaps the lockdown measures can lift as soon as next week and life could return to normal in new zealand. >> this is a stark contrast with the situation you're facing in the u.s. >> yes, absolutely. president trump was trying to make a point with coronavirus. he's clearly picking on the wrong country here. will ripley, thank you very much. >>> when we come back, the four day democratic national convention is coming to an end. we'll look at the highlights.

the government there does not think that it's safe enough to hold the vote with aukland, the major city, largest city, now in the grip of a new cluster of covid-19. you'll remember that it wasn't too long ago that new zealand was celebrating 100 days without community transmission. now the feeling that new zealand is right back where it started. here's what she said about that this morning. >> ultimately the 17th of october in approximately nine weeks' time provides sufficient time for them plan around the range of circumstances we could be containing under. the electoral commission to appear and voters to be ensured of a safe, critical election. due to this decision, i am proposing parliament reconvene tomorrow. >> reporter: this isn't a political decision. she is in the ascendency. the opposition party has done very bad. it's had three separate leaders. it's in a state of disarray. the labor party would have been looking forward to the election. the people of new zealand feel that she has done a good job in crushing coronavirus. they hope to eliminate it completely from the country. t

they have ordered aukland to return to lockdown authorities are trying to track the source of the outbreak officials are investigating the virus getting into the country through freight. >> this stage we have not yet been able to determine the source of these cases. there is no immediate link that we have found as yet to our managed isolation facility that we are aware of and there is no yet non-connection to any high-risk individuals such as those who work at our border therefore, we need to take a much more precautionary approach until we can find the source of this case and make sure that we reduce the risk of wider spread. >> a short time ago, we were waiting for numbers of tencent just hitting the tape now. second quarter revenues at 114,883 million. this number is up from what you saw previously at 88,821 the second quarter has 33,107 rmb versus 24,136 million prior to that. so the numbers going in the right direction. monthly average users at wechat are at 1206 million. so the numbers are showing improvement in the monthly average users on those major platforms as well. talk about t