On 25 Jan 2021 at 05:06p, apam pondered and said...

Hey I see Australia just closed it's borders to New Zealand :(

Probably not for long I imagine.
On the other hand, it might depend on which state you want to get into.

I'm not sure why but guessing it's related to a case of suspected community transmission that first came to light yesterday over here. There's been a flurry of activity in the past 24 hours with a lot of people in Northland getting tested.

Folks are nervous about the prospect of entering a higher level of lockdown again but the government has made no decisions on this as yet. I think it
will come down to the results that turn up with testing in the coming day or two.

I think a trans-tasman bubble seems further away then ever.

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I'm not sure why but guessing it's related to a case of suspected
community
transmission that first came to light yesterday over here. There's
been a
flurry of activity in the past 24 hours with a lot of people in
Northland
getting tested.

I saw a news thing that said something about a south african variant that popped up in NZ, and they want to make sure it doesn't spread before
opening up again.

NZ has been pretty on top of the covid things, so that is why I suspect
it wont be for too long, and is more a cautionary thing, and our
government covering their backsides.

Oh well. I was hoping this would all be sorted by may (my birthday heh)
I'd like to see my family.. but it's not really doable with border
closures and air fare prices. Selfish I know, but hey, the sooner it's
sorted the better.

Andrew


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