Video journalist Simon Rogers is in an isolation facility in Rotorua - he showed us round his hotel room (first published January 29). A dedicated isolation hotel for “501” deportees from Australia has shut up shop thanks to the Trans-Tasman travel bubble. The Ramada Suites by Wyndham Hotel in central Auckland’s Federal St has been decommissioned as a managed isolation facility (MIQ). DAVID WHITE/STUFF 501 deportees walk past a heavy police presence as they settle in for their enforced quarantine at the Ramada Hotel in Auckland in July 2020 (file photo). “The Ramada has been an excellent facility for these returnees, however it would not currently be suitable for a regular managed isolation facility,” the statement said.

Source: Stuff May 07, 2021 22:34 UTC