Grant Robertson's defending the decision to keep Auckland in red for another two weeks. 

The region along with other red regions, except Northland, will move into orange at midnight on December 30.  

The Deputy Prime Minister says [told Heather du Plessis-Allan] they are continuing their cautious approach. 

“There is still thousands of active cases being managed in Auckland, and we just want to give a full two weeks cycles from when the traffic light came in and that takes you to the 30–31 December.” 

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