Many families reunited on Monday April 19, after nearly four hundred days of a travel ban between Australia and New Zealand. Possible reunion thanks to an open travel bubble between the two neighboring countries.
“Aussies” and “Kiwis” are finally allowed to cross the Tasman Sea to their neighbor’s house. The travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand has been open since Monday April 19, after more than a year of travel bans between the two countries. “This means people can travel from Australia to New Zealand and back without having to quarantine,” sums up the New Zealand daily The Dominion Post.
The excitement generated by this return to a more normal situation is felt in the local press. “It’s our first anniversary again,” reads the Dominion Post. Commercial flights between the two countries without quarantine on arrival had been suspended for exactly three hundred and eighty-six days.
Families finally reunited
The joy of travelers from New Zealand and Australia was also palpable at Melbourne airport, where they visited the Australian daily The Sydney Morning Herald. “The travel bubble has separated families from Covid-19,” the newspaper reports. Janet Callaghan had to marry her three-year-old grandson for the first time
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