New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has unveiled a “proceed, pause, or droop” system for quarantine free journey between Australia and New Zealand to establish threat of COVID-19.
Ms Ardern mentioned “Australia can be handled as a area” of New Zealand when deciding restrictions and didn’t rule out the potential for a full 14-day quarantine upon return if deemed needed.
“If there was a case that’s linked to a border employee in a quarantine facility and is effectively contained you’d probably see journey proceed in the identical approach as you’d see life proceed if that occurred right here in New Zealand,” she mentioned.
“If, nevertheless, a case was discovered that was not clearly linked to the border and a state responded by a brief lockdown to establish extra data we’d probably pause flights from that state … and if we noticed a number of circumstances unknown origin we’d probably droop flights for a set time period.”