Quarantine-free travel depends on national vaccine cover: Ardern

Quarantine-free travel depends on national vaccine cover: Ardern
Pattrick Smellie
Quarantine-free travel may have to wait until all New Zealanders wanting to be immunised against covid-19 have been vaccinated.“No country is going to finish their immunisation programme in the first part of 2021. Everyone is looking at similar timeframes for when they’ll finish,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told her weekly post-Cabinet press conference.However, Ardern confirmed the government is considering shortening managed isolation quarantine for people travelling to New Zealand from low-risk countries.“It’s...

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