New Zealand to ease quarantine restrictions for returning travellers

New Zealanders wait to be vaccinated at Manurewe Marae vaccination centre in Auckland, New Zealand (Sylvie Whinray/New Zealand Herald via AP)

New Zealand officials will gradually loosen border quarantine requirements which have been among the toughest in the world throughout the pandemic.

But while the changes will make it easier for New Zealanders stranded abroad to return home, officials gave no date for when tourists might be welcomed back.