New Zealand PM says travel to some Australian states possible before Christmas

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Arden, on September 28, said that travel to some Australian states is possible as both nations have been reporting a lower number of COVID-19 infections. two nations h been discussing plans for travel ‘bubble’, however, with resurgence of new coronavirus cases in Melbourne followed by a second wave in Auckland, talks h been halted. w, with virus largely contained in New Zealand and Australia, talks of a travel bubble have been revived. 

While speaking to TVNZ, Arden assured that Kiwis would be able to travel at least some Australian regions before Christmas. However, she ded that she still needs to be assured that when Australia says ‘Okay we’ve got a hotspot over here’ that border around hotspot means that people aren’t able to travel into states where New Zealand is engaging within trans-Tasman travel. 

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According to reports, under potential plan, New Zealanders would be able to travel interstate and even to Australia, if a region was t deemed a hot spot. travel may initially only be restricted to Kiwis heing to Australia and may be restricted to just travellers from New Zealand’s South Island, which has h t coronavirus cases for months. 

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COVID-19 outbreak in Australia, NZ 

While New Zealand has only 59 active cases and around 1,477 confirmed cases of COVID-19, Australia has reported over 27,000 cases and 875 deaths. Both nations have been reporting a lower number of cases as compared to or developed countries around globe. So far, New Zealand has one of lowest tallies in world, Victoria in Australia, on or hand, has been reporting fewer than 20 cases a day. 

Arden said that Australia was satisfied with both how New Zealand was tracking w and how y are tracking generally. Even though she said that travel before Christmas is possible, she also ded that country still needs a strategy of having COVID-free country, which will remain an ‘ongoing goal’ and a ‘way of operating’. Furr, while giving example of Queensland in Australia, New Zealand PM said that Australian state has h sporic cases of community transmission, however, Western Australia has gone more than five months without community cases. 

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