Thousands to miss Christmas thanks to Covid-19

Video / NZ HeraldBy RNZThousands of people will be cancelling their Christmas Day plans thanks to the invisible grinch, Covid-19. “We’re having family over on Christmas Day on Sunday, so I’m going to keep a really low-profile until then. We’ll probably test on Christmas Day before everybody comes over.”If her husband or their 7-year-old tested positive, they would postpone. “We’ve got five grandparents around for Christmas Day and we wouldn’t want them to be exposed to anything just for the sake of a meal. We can always put it off.”Free biscuit not worth the riskFor the thousands who were flying to their Christmas Day destination, O’Neale said it paid to be cautious and mask-up.