Queensland must be really worried about it - they are bombarding ads on Facebook. Here just three examples:

It really shows the massive risks to NZ and Australia and why Australia is so keen to proceed with their vaccine rollout ASAP. NZ on the other hand seems happy with our very late rollout.

Brisbane has just gone into a 3 day lockdown, 9 cases detected ( likely all the Variant strain)

sbiddle:

 

It really shows the massive risks to NZ and Australia and why Australia is so keen to proceed with their vaccine rollout ASAP. NZ on the other hand seems happy with our very late rollout.

 

In the meantime insisting on a negative test before getting on a plane should help. Will be interesting to see what impact it has.

wellygary:

Brisbane has just gone into a 3 day lockdown, 9 cases detected ( likely all the Variant strain)

Buster:

 

 

 

In the meantime insisting on a negative test before getting on a plane should help. Will be interesting to see what impact it has.

 

Getting a negative test within THREE DAYS before boarding. Big difference. Its a help, but you then have up to three days to work live and play with the rest of the population in a high risk country.

tdgeek:Getting a negative test within THREE DAYS before boarding. Big difference. Its a help, but you then have up to three days to work live and play with the rest of the population in a high risk country.

Correct, but it's better than not doing it, and it might highlight to the individual to keep themselves out of harms way as much as possible in the days before getting the test and while waiting for the result. After all positive result and the trip is off. It feels like some of these travellers just don't care. Covid? Oops. We'll fix it at the NZ end. There's no Covid there.

Buster:

 

sbiddle:

 

It really shows the massive risks to NZ and Australia and why Australia is so keen to proceed with their vaccine rollout ASAP. NZ on the other hand seems happy with our very late rollout.

 

 

In the meantime insisting on a negative test before getting on a plane should help. Will be interesting to see what impact it has.

 

Pre flight testing is not a magic fix. It's something that should have been happening for a long time now (120+ countries around the world and numerous airlines already demand it) but it is good that we are now doing it.

People can still be infected prior to their flight, or during the flight, but taking every step we can to prevent an infected person arriving in NZ is what we need to be doing. Every person who has Covid here is a possible source of CT should it escape, so even one less person arriving here with the virus is one less chance of that happening.

I really don't understand why people like Siouxsie Wiles are so anti this happening, but she lost all credibility months ago when she starting politicising everything she says which is why most media basically won't touch her now.

sbiddle:

It really shows the massive risks to NZ and Australia and why Australia is so keen to proceed with their vaccine rollout ASAP. NZ on the other hand seems happy with our very late rollout.

 

 

sbiddle:

It really shows the massive risks to NZ and Australia and why Australia is so keen to proceed with their vaccine rollout ASAP. NZ on the other hand seems happy with our very late rollout.

 

 

sbiddle:

It really shows the massive risks to NZ and Australia and why Australia is so keen to proceed with their vaccine rollout ASAP. NZ on the other hand seems happy with our very late rollout.

 

 

Border Force. Every traveller coming into the UK must have a negative Covid test or face £500 fine.

debo:

sbiddle:

 

It really shows the massive risks to NZ and Australia and why Australia is so keen to proceed with their vaccine rollout ASAP. NZ on the other hand seems happy with our very late rollout.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

According to the PM, it is when we finish the roll out not when we start. It sent chills down my spine to her hear her say that.

not sure why, we will probably have the whole country vacinated before most other big countries , the USA being the main one.

vexxxboy:

 

debo:

According to the PM, it is when we finish the roll out not when we start. It sent chills down my spine to her hear her say that.

 

 

 

not sure why, we will probably have the whole country vacinated before most other big countries , the USA being the main one.

 

That's far from being correct.

The US will finish their vaccine rollout (even at current speeds) well before NZ. They'll potentially have well over 2/3 of their population vaccinated before we even start. Most Western countries plan on having their vaccination programs complete well before the end of 2021.

Out vaccine rollout isn't scheduled to be complete until the end of Q1 2022 - the US is scheduled to be competed well before the end of 2021. Remember Biden has even doubled down a week or so ago on his target of 100 million vaccinated within his first 100 days in office. They will have the vaccines, their problem has been logistics.