The process to replace an ONT Power Cable is to fill out this form: https://www.chorus.co.nz/ont-cable-request and one of the Auckland teams will courier one out from their stocks for free either later that day in the PM or by the next AM.
As others have said you were unfortunately caught up in the lockdown. I don't know what the process was to workaround that at that time.
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