The hospitality sector would rather stay at level 3 than move to the new delta lockdown level 2.5.
Essential transport operators will need to head to testing stations within the next 48 hours or risk being turned around by police at the Auckland boundary.
MBIE denies that it keeps a proper record of past MIQ occupancy, but its own documents appear to show otherwise.
The suspension of bookings is just the latest in a long line of supply constraints in the MIQ bottleneck.