The stories of the variety of Kiwis who are coming home to New Zealand and what they are doing upon their return. They’re cutting their overseas adventures short, packing up their lives in more exciting locations, running from rolling lockdowns and heading home. We’ve gone from losing nearly 20,000 New Zealanders a year to foreign countries, to gaining 7200 in the year in March. “If you think we’ve got a net gain of 7200 kiwis relative to an average year where we might have net migration of 56,000 people … numerically you would expect that impact to be smaller. At the moment daily updates are coming through from Customs, and they’re being published on the Stats NZ website, on the Covid-19 data portal.

Source: Stuff October 15, 2020 16:02 UTC