New Zealand to open quarantine-free “travel bubble” with Australia

Re:New Zealand to open quarantine-free “travel bubble” with ... by px1999 on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @04:46AM (#26709572)

FWIW, Australia had 23 local cases in the last month (an outbreak which resulted in a major city going into a snap lockdown).

Australia and NZ's risk profiles are different from pretty much anywhere else in the world right now. On that level, it's not a particularly reckless move.

That said, I understand the hesitation that a lot of people, particularly from NZ have. Our positions (both NZ and Australia's) have been hard earned, and one major slip up could make it all count for nothing.

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Re:New Zealand to open quarantine-free “travel bubble” with ... by markdown on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @05:02AM (#26709670)

> Australia and NZ's risk profiles are different from pretty much anywhere else in the world right now.

Fiji hasn't had a single covid case in the wild in a year, with all our covid patients being detected in quarantine and isolated until recovery.

No bubble with us though. The Aussies get it first.

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Re:New Zealand to open quarantine-free “travel bubble” with ... by px1999 on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @10:50PM (#26720065)

I'd personally be in favor of some sort of travel bubble within the pacific with other countries who share our low/zero local transmission (or at least to have a more lightweight quarantine process involved).

That said, my point was that opening NZ up to Australia (and vice versa) is a very different scenario to opening up to eg the US, France or the UK.

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