Friday, 15 January 2021, 4:52 pm
The New Zealand Initiative welcomes today’s
announcement of quarantine-free travel to New Zealand from
the Cook Islands.
Initiative Chief Economist Dr Eric
Crampton said, “About 80,000 Cook Islanders live in New
Zealand. Allowing quarantine-free travel from the Covid-free
Cook Islands into New Zealand will let their families come
to see them again. So long as the Cooks and New Zealand
remain Covid-free, we can hope that two-way quarantine-free
travel will soon
follow.”
“Establishing safe travel
corridors between places that are free of Covid, along with
rigorous safety protocols keeping Covid out of those safe
places, is important in moving to normality over the next