Amid surge of Covid-19 cases, New Zealand has banned entry for all travellers from India, including its citizens, from from 4pm on April 11 till April 28.
The announcement by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern came soon after the country reported 23 new positive cases at its border. Among these, 17 were from India. “We are temporarily suspending entry into New Zealand for travellers from India,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said in a news conference in Auckland.
Health teams would use the time until April 28 to try and plan safer ways to accept travellers from India. But there were no guarantees officials would come up with a better solution, she said.
Ardern said she could not answer whether the halt on arrivals from India would last longer than April 28. “We’re seeing surges in other places, but we just don’t have the higher number of travellers from those places,” Ardern said.