New Zealand will ask international travellers to show their negative COVID-19 report before flying in
New Delhi: The New Zealand Authority on Tuesday announced that all international travellers have to show their coronavirus negative report before they board the plane to arrive in New Zealand. International travellers have to show their Coronavirus Negative report card after January 18.
Covid-19 response Minister of New Zealand Chrish Hipkins said that “Given the high rates of infection in many countries and evidence of the global spread of more transmissible variants, it is clear that most global air routes will be of critical concern for the foreseeable future.”
“The New Zealand Government unveiled a number of new border protection changes which it said, would protect New Zealand from Covid-19, including any new more contagious strains.” Minister added
Hipkins has also expanded New Zealand’s domestic quarantine and isolation testing requirements.
The government had made this rule for people who return to New Zealand from The UK and the USA, but now the government is set to expand that to every country in the world.
People travelling from Australia, Antarctica and some Pacific Island nations are also exempt from these rules.
New Zealand had closed its international borders for international travellers and the administration reported positive results in coronavirus case reporting. New Zealand reports around five to six coronavirus cases a week from the last few months.
The New Wellington government said it had secured enough vaccines to inoculate all of the country’s five million people, with agreements signed with pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and Novavax.
_Vinayak
