Australia's travel bubble with New Zealand will be put on pause for 3 days after a COVID-19 case was detected in Auckland James Hennessy Australia's travel bubble with New Zealand has been put on pause for 72 hours. It comes after a case of the highly infectious South African strain of COVID-19 was detected in Auckland. The person likely caught the virus in hotel quarantine, and visited 30 locations prior to testing positive. Visit Business Insider Australia's homepage for more stories. Australia's travel bubble with New Zealand will be put on ice for three days after a case of community transmission was detected in Auckland.