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Level 2.5? Ashley Bloomfield s vision to open NZ to the world
Photo / Chris Weissenborn Sat, 15 May 2021, 9:57AM
Opening up the border to vaccinated tourists to resurrect this country s tourism industry could require Kiwis to return to life at Covid alert level 2.5.
That is a future vision floated by director-general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield when asked whether borders might open before the vaccine rollout finished - scheduled for the end of this year.
If it came to fruition it could provide the financial boom that Kiwi tourism operators need. Pre-Covid, the industry was worth $40.9 billion to the economy.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern went a step further than Bloomfield in a pre-Budget speech in Auckland yesterday, when she talked about the possibility of having vaccinated people arriving from overseas before the rollout here was finished.
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Director-general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said stronger public measures - like level 2.5 - might have to be new norm once the borders open. Video / Mark Mitchell
Director-general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield said stronger public measures - like level 2.5 - might have to be new norm once the borders open. Video / Mark Mitchell
Derek Cheng is deputy political editor for the New Zealand Heraldderek.cheng@nzme.co.nz
Opening up the border to vaccinated tourists to resurrect this country s tourism industry could require Kiwis to return to life at Covid alert level 2.5.