New Zealand suspends entry for travellers from India due to high Covid-19 cases

Auckland International Airport

New Zealand on Thursday temporarily suspended entry for all travellers from India, including its own citizens, for about two weeks following a high number of positive coronavirus cases arriving from the South Asian country. The move comes after New Zealand recorded 23 new positive coronavirus cases at its border on Thursday, of which 17 were from India. ‘We are temporarily suspending entry into New Zealand for travellers from India,’ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said in a news conference in Auckland. India has recorded 12.8 million Covid-19 cases, the most after the United States and Brazil. It is now battling a deadly second wave of infections, and this week the number of daily new cases passed the peak of the first wave seen last September.