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Kinda feel like all international travel should require testing
Have fun >

"Officials have done a public health risk assessment, including working through scenarios of potential case numbers among travellers from China. This confirmed these visitors won't contribute significantly to our Covid case numbers meaning entry restrictions aren't required or justified,"
Because it'd be kind of ridiculous when our covid rates here in New Zealand are also very high right now. Frankly, we're lucky that other countries aren't requiring us to provide a negative test before flying. >

It isn't luck. >

You're right. It's more likely a combination of Western hegemony and our own political irrelevance. >

The latter. >

That seems like a bad call. >

So they will lock down their own citizens for years but not do an absolutely basic tactic to reduce COVID transmission? Lol >

The circumstance now is very different from two years ago. I'd doubt there are many kiwis who are very concerned about this. I still haven't even had covid. >

Consider yourself lucky. I’m dealing with heart and lung issues after a “mild case” 7 months ago. >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 79%. (I'm a bot)


New Zealand will not require travellers from China to be tested for Covid-19, the government has announced.
The Covid-19 variant in China should not require new measures such as mandatory testing to protect New Zealanders, the Minister added.
"There is minimal public health risk to New Zealand. We know that BF7 is the prevalent variant in China and that it hasn't caused significant outbreaks in other countries that, like New Zealand, have already been exposed to the BA5 variant. So public health measures are not required to protect New Zealanders."


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Big mistake >

Thought NZ was wiser than this. They will regret this soon. >

We will listen to the scientists not the politics >

Are your scientists really saying "eh, we already have a lot of COVID going around so what harm is a few thousand more infected people from China gonna do?"
That seems... like unusual logic for the scientific community to follow. >

Did you read the article? >

NZ has a lot of reliance on Chinese trade and is not about to gamble on China getting revenge. Tip toe around China policy works. >

We’re fucked >

No we are not. You may not have noticed but we have a ton of covid already which is why it won't make much difference especially since the tests are not reliable. >

Time will tell won’t it. I’d sooner be testing people coming in from a country supposedly plagued with it, regardless of the tests being unreliable, than going through lockdown bollocks again >

Test the people coming from every country then.