China urges NZ to lift travel restrictions

China urges NZ to lift travel restrictions
Rebecca Howard
China says the coronavirus outbreak there is generally under control and New Zealand should lift the ban on foreign nationals travelling from or through China.China's ambassador to New Zealand, Wu Xi, said the New Zealand government's travel ban is at odds with World Health Organisation guidelines and past practice during previous outbreaks.“The question for me is not to renew or extend," she told journalists in Wellington. "The question to me is should the travel limit be imposed in the first place?”At the end of January, the World Health Orga...

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