January 26 According to Bloomberg on the 26th, New Zealand Prime Minister Ardern said at a press conference on the same day that New Zealand may remain border blockaded for most of 2021 due to uncertainty about the distribution of coronavirus vaccines.
New Zealand Prime Minister Ardern said that New Zealand’s border management will still be affected by the coronavirus epidemic in 2021, so New Zealand will impose travel quarantine measures on Australia and Pacific island countries, and border blockades on the rest of the world, because these areas will bring excessive security and economic winds to New Zealand.
Risk. It is understood that New Zealand and Australia have previously adopted one-way isolation measures. Australian tourists who go to New Zealand need to be quarantined before entering.
It is reported that New Zealand is currently planning to carry out the vaccination against the novel coronavirus, but Ardern is not sure when the vaccine will arrive in New Zealand.
So far, there have been 2,290 confirmed cases and 25 deaths of COVID-19 in New Zealand.