COVID-19: Joy at NZ airports as travel ban on Australians lifts
“Hello & kia ora & g’day & welcome” a signal waved at Auckland Global Airport explained yesterday early morning as Australian travelers set foot on New Zealand soil for the first time considering the fact that the shorter-lived travel bubble involving the two nations abruptly finished in the middle of past calendar year.
More than 4,000 folks touring from Australia on Air New Zealand flights were yesterday expected to get there at Auckland and Wellington airports, after the COVID-19 border limits lifted at midnight.
Vaccinated Australians and everlasting residents can enter New Zealand with no other requirements than to self-test for COVID-19 on arrival.
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That marks the to start with stage in welcoming global people back to the place once again — a long wait around for numerous, which was apparent as family members and friends greeted arrivals with tears and embraces, to the backdrop of waiata (Maori track).
Constanza Munoz instructed national broadcaster Radio New Zealand that she had been waiting for her sister’s arrival at the airport due to the fact 4am. 
“I could not sleep final night, I am extremely energized, I am shaking,” she explained, including that quite a few users of her family members had nevertheless to fulfill her daughter, born in 2020, and she experienced been dreaming of this minute for a long time.
An before border reopening announcement last year was derailed by the arrival of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.
Global readers are to be allowed to enter New Zealand from October, except the federal government decides it is secure to do so before.
The govt yesterday declared that the complete country would move down COVID-19 alert degrees as situations continue on to fall. 
There are no longer limitations on gatherings, but masks would nonetheless be demanded on community transport and flights, as nicely as within just close-proximity organizations.
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