New Zealand to ease quarantine rules for incoming travellers

The measures were initially credited with saving thousands of lives and allowed New Zealand to eliminate or control several outbreaks of the coronavirus

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a change in quarantine rules. Picture: Sam James/AP

New Zealand’s government has announced it will start to end quarantine requirements for incoming travellers and reopen its borders.

Since the start of the pandemic, New Zealand has enacted some of the world’s strictest border controls.