Hermit kingdom no more: NZ’s reopening timetable

Hermit kingdom no more: NZ’s reopening timetable
Border restrictions will ease from the end of the month and be gone by October. (Image: Getty)
Pattrick Smellie
Pummelled by negative headlines at home and abroad and an increasingly dysfunctional quarantine system, the government has announced a border reopening strategy starting later this month, just as the omicron outbreak is expected to take hold.“It’s time to move again,” the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, announced at a livestreamed address in Auckland this morning.Trans-Tasman travel will be the first to ease, with vaccinated New Zealanders from Australia able to return from 11.59pm on Feb 27, with borders fully reopened in fiv...

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