New Zealand have announced that they are planning to reopen the country’s borders and ease quarantine requirements for inbound citizens.
Currently, inbound travellers are required to complete a mandatory quarantine period in a hotel room run by New Zealand’s military.
The new border changes have been implemented that means vaccinated New Zealand residents who are returning from Australia will not be required to enter into a mandatory quarantine.
This change is set to go underway at the end of February.
While vaccinated New Zealand residents from international arrivals will no longer have to undergo quarantine from Mid-March.
However, vaccinated travellers from the rest of the world will not be able to avoid the mandatory quarantine until October 2022.
Unvaccinated Travellers will still be required to enter into quarantine upon arrival.
Following this announcement, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern stated that, “There was life before, and now life with Covid, but that also means there will be life after Covid too, a life where we have adapted, where we have some normality back, and where the weather can once again take its rightful place as our primary topic of conversation,”
Adding that “We are well on our way to reaching that destination. We’re just not quite there yet”
