He has incurable myeloma and will receive medical treatment in Singapore for a secondary blood cancer. We've had correspondence with them and they say that some of their patients are having to make the same applications for emergency MIQ allocation that other people are making." "My wife has diligently pursued these questions [about emergency MIQ] and has from ministers and senior officials has got returned emails. It's all careful, and it says essentially you'll to have to try your luck with the emergency allocation system or through the standard MIQ process." This is because the Emergency Allocation process exists for limited situations which require urgent travel to New Zealand within the next 14 days.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 02, 2021 03:11 UTC