The minister in charge of detaining returning New Zealanders, Megan Woods, says that seven new managed isolation facilities will be needed to cope with an influx of returning Kiwis in the next fortnight. These facilities, likely to be hotels, will be able to handle 1300 returning New Zealanders at a time, and are expected open in Christchurch and Rotorua. This would be a massive expansion of capacity of the quarantine and managed isolation system, which currently sits at 4607, spread across 20 hotels. JOSEPH JOHNSON/The-Press The Sudima Hotel at the Christchurch Airport, one of two hotels in the city taking new arrivals in isolation. "In the next two weeks we’re thinking we need to bring on seven new facilities," Woods said.

Source: Stuff June 23, 2020 00:11 UTC