New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has unveiled a “continue, pause, or suspend” system for quarantine free travel between Australia and New Zealand to identify the risk of COVID-19.
Ms. Ardern said, “Australia would be treated as a region” of New Zealand when deciding restrictions and did not rule out the possibility of a full 14-day quarantine upon return if deemed necessary.
“If there was a case that is linked to a border worker in a quarantine facility and is well contained, you’d likely see travel continue in the same way as you would see life continue if that happened here in New Zealand,” she said.
“If, however, a case was found that was not clearly linked to the border and a state responded by a short lockdown to identify more information, we’d likely pause flights from that state … and if we saw multiple cases of unknown origin, we’d likely suspend flights for a set period.”
