Travellers from four 'very high risk' countries cannot come to New Zealand under a new plan designed to reduce the amount of infected people arriving. The New Zealand Government today introduced the new category of a 'very high risk' country - including India, Brazil, Pakistan and Papua New Guinea - to further bolster the country's defence against Covid-19. Countries will be initially designated 'very high risk' when there have been more than 50 cases of Covid-19 per 1000 arrivals to New Zealand from those countries in 2021, and where there are more than 15 travellers on average per month. The accumulative risk to New Zealand from travellers from India has been looked at, Hipkins said. The first assessment of high risk countries will take place within the next two weeks, Hipkins said.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 23, 2021 00:13 UTC