According to Jacinda Ardern, Auckland’s hard border will stay in place over summer with only double vaxxed people allowed to escape the locked down city.
As Christmas and the much looked forward to summer holiday period is fast approaching, people around the country are wondering whether they will be able to reconnect after many, many months of restrictions.
The Prime Minister told ZM's Fletch, Vaughan and Meghan that the Government was still working through the logistics of enabling Aucklanders to leave the city and visit friends and family for Christmas and over summer - but it would only apply to those who were double jabbed or had returned a negative test.
"If anyone wants to make sure they are able to leave over the summer that's another reason to get vaccinated.”
She told the radio hosts that the issue to letting vaccinated Aucklanders leave wasn't so much other regions reaching the 90 percent target, but how they could manage 30,000 cars at a time trying to leave while checking they had a vaccine certificate and produced a negative COVID test before they did.
Ardern acknowledged things were really tough as the country and the government’s COVID response went through a transition period, but promised things would get better soon especially with Auckland potentially reaching the 90 per cent target in about three weeks.
"This is a really, really rough spot we are all in, but it is going to get better - it absolutely is."
