Foreign Minister Winston Peters says he wants to see a transtasman border bubble formed as soon as possible now that this country and Australia are ''beating the crap'' out of Covid-19. Both countries had got on top of community transmission of the coronavirus but the transtasman bubble wouldn't be viable if there was still a quarantine for two weeks. There would need to be as much activity as possible within a bubble and that was being worked on now. Peters, who is also Deputy Prime Minister, wants the country to move to alert level 2 as soon as possible to support business and jobs. Peters said nobody knew how soon a Covid-19 vaccine could be developed, which could completely change that timeframe.

Source: Otago Daily Times April 30, 2020 05:37 UTC