If We're To Defend Our Borders From The Pandemic, What Do We Mean By Borders?
Senior Lecturer in Border and Resource Security, Massey University Before COVID-19 hit New Zealand’s shores last year, most people’s understanding of defending a border would have come from watching TV reality show Border Patrol. It is easy to understand — on the maps, our country is surrounded by an ocean moat, a natural border. This makes controlling risks arriving from overseas relatively easy as there are limited points at which they can enter New Zealand. Since February 2, 2020, when a travel ban on non-citizens who had travelled through China was introduced, borders have been very...
Source: scoop.co.nz
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