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The New Zealand government appears to be edging towards a state-by-state approach to establishing travel bubbles with Australia, singling out New South Wales’s approach as a source of heightened risk for transferring covid-19 to NZ.“It does look increasingly difficult at a country by country level,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said at her post-Cabinet press conference this afternoon. “We haven’t ruled out the possibility of state-by-state.Her comments follow Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s decisi...

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