Fresh Zealand tightens race guidelines as COVID spreads

Fresh Zealand announced Sunday tighter border restrictions, as recent cases of COVID-19 emerged in areas beforehand freed from the coronavirus.

“We are introducing the requirement for air travellers old-fashioned 17 and over, who are probably to be not Fresh Zealand electorate, to be completely vaccinated to enter Fresh Zealand,” COVID-19 response minister Christ Hipkins acknowledged.

The national flag provider Air Fresh Zealand also announced it used to be introducing a “no jab, no fly” protection for passengers on all global flights from February 1.

The nation has been hugely a hit at containing the virus—reporting correct 27 deaths in a population of 5 million—attributable to tight border controls and lockdowns, allowing pre-pandemic existence to largely resume.

Nonetheless the upped border restrictions come as Hamilton city and neighbouring Raglan town had been build into a 5-day lockdown, with very most appealing necessary motion licensed, after two of us examined definite.

The cases are probably to be not believed to be connected to the most up-to-date outbreak in Auckland, 160 kilometres away.

Town of two million has been in lockdown for virtually seven weeks as officials grapple with a virus of the highly transmissible Delta variant that has so a long way contaminated 1,320 of us.

About 2,000 of us attended an anti-lockdown rally in Auckland over the weekend, with Jacinda Ardern describing the demonstration as “a total slap within the face” for people who had been abiding by the strict guidelines banning public gatherings.

“It used to be illegal and to boot it used to be morally depraved,” the top minister acknowledged.

Fresh Zealand is pursuing a “COVID zero” elimination approach.

It had been freed from group transmission for six months sooner than basically the most up-to-date Auckland outbreak.

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