New Zealand is in a four-week lockdown to contain the virus that has infected more than three quarters of a million around the globe.

The smelter will scale back part of its aluminium making facilities, and affected workers will be reallocated to other areas of the plant, Rio Tinto Aluminium New Zealand said in a statement.

(Reporting by Sonali Paul and Melanie Burton in Melbourne; Additional reporting by Bangalore bureau; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)