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OPINION: We ve been celebrating a few anniversaries recently, as a nation – not many of them very welcome ones. Six weeks ago, it was exactly one year since the first confirmed Covid-19 case on New Zealand soil; this Friday, a year since (almost) everyone entering the country faced spending two weeks watching YouTube videos and modifying their fitness routine to fit inside a managed isolation hotel room. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment celebrated with a press release on Friday that, rightly, paid homage to the thousands of frontline workers who ve helped keep the rest of us safe.
New Zealanders in India are devastated the government has taken the unprecedented step of suspending all travel from the Covid-19 hot spot leaving them stranded.
Travel into New Zealand from India - including for New Zealand citizens and residents - is being temporarily suspended because of high numbers of Covid-19 cases
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From Sunday, no one can arrive here from India for 14 days - giving officials a chance to investigate ways to reduce the risk from a country where the coronavirus is rampant.
That s reflected in the cases picked up in managed isolation here, with 80 percent in the past two weeks from the subcontinent. Seventeen of the 23 Covid-19 cases reported in managed isolation yesterday arrived from India.
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New Zealanders in India are devastated the government has taken the unprecedented step of suspending all travel from the Covid-19 hot spot leaving them stranded.
Travel into New Zealand from India - including for New Zealand citizens and residents - is being temporarily suspended because of high numbers of Covid-19 cases
Photo: RNZ
From Sunday, no one can arrive here from India for 14 days - giving officials a chance to investigate ways to reduce the risk from a country where the coronavirus is rampant.
That s reflected in the cases picked up in managed isolation here, with 80 percent in the past two weeks from the subcontinent. Seventeen of the 23 Covid-19 cases reported in managed isolation yesterday arrived from India.
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