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A recent returnee who escaped from Middlemore Hospital on Monday along with their child at the weekend has voluntarily returned to quarantine.  They are no

It is the second such caper since the advent of managed isolation.

The incident occurred on Friday evening.

They say the guest had no injuries and measures are being taken to support their wellbeing.  "Managed isolation can be a challenging time that affects people going through it, in different ways, and it sometimes follows what may have been a stressful time in making arrangements to get home," the spokesperson added. Several returnees have attempted escapes from MIQ hotels, the first exactly a year ago on June 4, 2020, when a woman climbed the fence of the Pullman Hotel. She was found a few stre...

She said she had not spoken to Prime Minister Scott Morrison about the teenager’s deportation. “He knows my position on the deportation policy,” she said. “So actually regardless of whether or not we’re dealing with a minor or someone who’s older, I have a specific objection to the fact that we have people being deported from Australia who we consider to be Australians.” The boy was deported alone, and its understood he is the first minor to be sent back under the scheme. Under cu...

Thanks to those concerning occurrences at the Pullman – along with other more recent circumstances – our news for the next few weeks is likely to be once again dominated by the term “Border Failure”. That is understandable – the recent circumstances via which first the South African strain and then the UK variant made their way out of containment deserve serious scrutiny. However, there’s another dimension to failures in our border policy. One which also mandates public attention an...

Thursday, 18 February 2021, 8:49 am Christchurch Airport is citing lessons learnt from the quakes, extensive changes it made to its business across 2015-2019 and its preparation for events like a pandemic, for its ability to pivot to a domestic operating model that can essentially break even while the pandemic’s impact on the borders evolves. Net Profit after Tax (NPAT) for the first half of financial year 2021 (FY21) - July to December 2020 - was $1.2m. Total operating revenue was $66m, dow...

Press Release – Christchurch Airport Christchurch Airport is citing lessons learnt from the quakes, extensive changes it made to its business across 2015-2019 and its preparation for events like a pandemic, for its ability to pivot to a domestic operating model that can essentially break … Christchurch Airport is citing lessons learnt from the quakes, extensive changes it made to its business across 2015-2019 and its preparation for events like a pandemic, for its ability to pivot to a dom...

There are 2 new cases of COVID-19 in managed isolation to report in New Zealand since our media statement yesterday

Three community cases in South Auckland.