Mike Yardley: Why is NZ allowing foreign boats into our ports? Mon, 19 Jul 2021, 2:57PM
Thirteen crew members on the Viking Bay tested positive for the Delta variant of Covid-19. (Photo / Mark Mitchell)
Mike Yardley: Why is NZ allowing foreign boats into our ports? Mon, 19 Jul 2021, 2:57PM
So yesterday a second foreign-flagged fishing vessel full of Covid, tied up at a New Zealand port.
Last week it was the Viking Bay berthing in Wellington, with fifteen Covid infected foreign crew. And yesterday, the Playa Zahara docked in Christchurch, with sixteen Covid cases. And like the Viking Bay crew, most of these Indonesian mariners are now being hosted by the taxpayer in MIQ, at the Sudima Hotel.