Pressure mounts for end to covid pre-departure tests

Pressure mounts for end to covid pre-departure tests
Covid testing like this at Los Angeles international airport is now a thing of the past. (Image: Getty)
Pattrick Smellie
Pressure is mounting on the government to drop covid pre-departure testing for travellers to New Zealand following the US move over the weekend to end its pre-departure testing regime.Airports, airlines and the NZ tourism industry have been calling for weeks for the tests to be dropped as NZ becomes an increasingly isolated outlier among developed economies still requiring that anyone planning to enter the country should have had a negative covid test within 48 hours of arrival.The US Centers for Disease Control announced that pre-departure tes...

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