New Zealand PM hits out after women released from quarantine before Covid test

Jacinda Ardern described the situation as an ‘unaccpetable failure’.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the releasing of two women from quarantine before they were tested for Covid-19 was “unacceptable”.

The women, who are New Zealand citizens, had flown from London to visit a dying parent and were granted an exemption to leave their mandatory 14-day quarantine early on compassionate grounds.