New Zealand, Australia To Create Travel Bubble, Resume Quarantine-Free Travel
at 12:16 am NPR
New Zealand and Australia will allow quarantine-free travel between the two countries starting April 19, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced Tuesday.
Ardern called the new arrangement the Trans-Tasman bubble. The bubble will give our economic recovery a boost and represents a world leading arrangement of safely opening up international travel while continuing to pursue a strategy of elimination and keeping the virus out, Adern said at a press briefing Tuesday.
It s the first time since the pandemic required travel restrictions and border closures that conditions have been met allowing for passengers to fly between Australia and New Zealand without needing a 14-day quarantine.