The reopening of New Zealand's borders to Australian travellers for the first time since July, 2021 has allowed trans-Tasman families to reunite after long periods apart.
Emotional reunions took place at Auckland International Airport on 13 April, 2022 after New Zealand borders reopened to Australian tourists.Trans-Tasman families are reuniting at New Zealand airports after the biggest border relaxation in a year.As of Wednesday, New Zealand is allowing Australian visitors again, for just the second time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Skype is OK but you just want to hold onto them and hug them tight and give them love," she told NZ news outlet Stuff. The opening is the first since last year's trans-Tasman bubble, which closed in July 2021 to delay the march of the Delta variant as New Zealand raced to raise vaccination rates.With the decision made it can no longer eliminate COVID-19, the doors have been flung open.'I've always been a sucker for airports'"I'm going down there this evening, as much for myself as anything else because I've always been a sucker for airports," she told AAP.
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