NZ could be at covid alert level 1 by late June

NZ could be at covid alert level 1 by late June
Pattrick Smellie
Late June is shaping up as the time for New Zealand to be operating more or less as it did before covid-19 lockdowns began in late March, apart from onerous restrictions on international travel remaining. The government would consider whether and when the country could move to the lowest alert level in response to the covid-19 virus within the next four weeks and "no later than June 22," Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said this afternoon. The Cabinet would "check in" on further relaxation of current alert level 2 restrictions in a fortnigh...

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