All commercial, recreational activities, and public transport across the province will be suspended on the designated dates.
The checkpoints will be set up at all the entry and exit routes of each city, while police Rangers and Army personnel will be deployed to monitor the situation.
Ardern has been widely praised for her management of the pandemic, with New Zealand recording just 25 deaths and less than 2,000 cases in a population of five million.
Thursday's data were also likely to show that the total number of people vaccinated so far in France was close to 300,000, Veran told a news conference.
One in two intensive care beds are occupied by COVID-19 patients and non-essential procedures are still being postponed to ease the burden on hospitals.
