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Hundreds of families have been split up since New Zealand s borders closed.
When Zane Gillbee hugged his family goodbye in South Africa before moving to Wellington, his daughter Lyla was still a baby and his son Callum a happy seven-year-old. Lyla is now a potty-trained, walking, talking two-and-a-half-year-old and Gillbee has missed it all. Callum, who is about to turn 9, has been diagnosed with separation anxiety and is on medication for it. Zane Gillbee is one of the hundreds of skilled migrants who moved to New Zealand for a better life before Covid-19 hit, expecting his family to follow.
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