It may surprise you to know that New Zealand is still operating under the Orange traffic light setting for Covid 19. Where nearly all other countries have dropped any kind of restrictions – as was evident on our recent trip to the UK and Europe, where there was very little, if any, mask-wearing in evidence – New Zealand still has restrictions on people entering the country, and requirements for testing upon entry.
At least, up until yesterday. At the stroke of midnight, all restrictions for people in New Zealand, and those entering, were dropped. This
brings us into line with…er…most of the rest of the world. There are some
exceptions (medical facilities and aged care in particular), but we are now
free from requirements to wear masks on buses, planes etc, and can come and go
as we please from other countries. The government, rather than moving to the Green
setting on the traffic light system, has scrapped the system completely. So poor
Green never saw the light of day, it was only a theoretical setting.
So that’s it, until the next one.
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