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January 26, 2021 New Zealand does not expect a full opening of its borders until the end of the year.
Prime Minister Jacida Ardern confirmed Wellington's interest in the 'travel corridor' with Australia, which was suspended yesterday from Canberra for 72 hours, but stressed that "the rest of the world represents too great a risk for our health and our economy ".
Yesterday, the Australian Minister of Health, Greg Hunt, announced the suspension for 72 hours of the 'travel corridor' with New Zealand after the detection of the first local infection of coronavirus in the country since last November.
Ardern stressed that to reopen the doors to international tourism it is necessary to be sure that vaccines prevent the spread of the virus, or "to have a sufficient part of the population vaccinated", but admitted that "both solutions will take some time. she will really feel back to normal when there is some level of normalcy in the rest of the world.
Vaccination of the population in New Zealand is not expected to start until at least mid-2021, while frontier workers and health care workers will begin receiving doses in the second quarter of this year.