The Government is suspending all compassionate exemptions at the border. Health Minister David Clark announced the move after two women who travelled from the United Kingdom, tested positive for Covid-19, after being given a compassionate exemption to leave a managed isolation facility. Chris Skelton/Stuff The Government is suspending all compassionate exemptions at the border until it has confidence in the system. Clark said he has now required Director General of Health Ashley Bloomfield to suspend compassionate exemptions from managed isolation, in order to ensure the system is working as intended. “Compassionate exemptions should be rare and rigorous and it appears that this case did not include the checks that we expected to be happening.

Source: Stuff June 16, 2020 05:37 UTC