New Zealand said on Monday it was extending a ban on cruise ships arriving in the country as it looks to safeguard borders as new cases emerge of people arriving in the country with the coronavirus.
“We are extending the current cruise ship ban which was due to expire on the 30th of June,” Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said in a news conference.
PM Jacinda Ardern on Wednesday called in the military to oversee the facilities and to manage border defences.
The government has suspended all exemptions to quarantine rules and said no one is to leave the isolated hotels where people are kept unless they have been tested.
New Zealand was one of the first countries in the world to return to pre-pandemic normality.
The country has recorded 1,513 cases and 22 deaths.
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