New Zealand will close its borders until next year. By the beginning of 2022, it plans to allow vaccinated travelers from low-risk countries without isolation.
Thanks to its strict management, it has recorded 3,000 infections and 26 deaths across the epidemic.
“We will go with determination”
“We are not yet in a position to fully reopen,” Prime Minister Jacinta Artern announced. “We will be careful when we move because we want to do it with confidence and determination.”
Canberra is also restricted
Australia has ordered the closure of its capital, Canberra, for seven days this Thursday. The first outbreak in thirteen months in this city of more than 400,000 people.
“We do not currently know the source of the epidemic,” said Andrew Barr, chief of The Christian Science Monitor’s Washington bureau. “But a comprehensive investigation has been conducted. This is the worst public health risk we have faced in the area this year. In fact since the outbreak of the epidemic. That is why we will introduce severe locks.”
There has been a small eruption of COVID 19 in Australia, which is already forced to close its two main cities, Melbourne and Sydney.
With Melbourne announcing it will extend its sixth prison term until the 19th, Sydney is examining easing restrictions on its vaccinated population after twenty new cases were registered in a single day.
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