Latest COVID-19 health key messages Approved messages for use in your communications Consistent messaging helps us to coordinate our efforts to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. This document provides approved key messages from the Ministry of Health. You may share this messaging with your internal and external audiences. New sections and changes to messages are in red. 7 July 2021
Update on QFT with Australian states Quarantine-free travel has resumed from the ACT, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria, and will resume with Western Australia and Northern Territory from 11.59pm on Friday 9 July. All quarantine-free travel passengers who are eligible to fly to New Zealand: • •
are required to have a pre-departure test within 72 hours of when they are leaving Australia and must present evidence of a negative pre-departure test prior to boarding must not have been in NSW or Queensland after 10.30pm (NZT) on 26 June 2021, or at an Australian location of interest before then.
Whilst the travel pause remains in place for NSW and Queensland, people in these two states who ordinarily reside in New Zealand will be able to return home on managed return flights starting from 11.59pm on Friday 9 July. Travellers eligible for managed return flights are: • • • •
New Zealand citizens and holders of residence class visas holders of temporary visas and Australian citizens who last left New Zealand after 5 April 2021 holders of current permanent residence visas (including a resident return visa) issued by the Government of Australia who last left New Zealand after 5 April 2021 relevant family members of the people listed above.
For further advice on eligibility for travel to New Zealand visit the Quarantine-free travel page and the Unite Against COVID-19 website.
Locations of interest in Australia If you have been in Australia, continue to check the location of interest pages for the states you have been in via: Quarantine-free travel: Contact tracing locations of interest. If you have been at a location of interest, isolate and call Healthline (0800 358 5453) to register and for further advice on testing.
Australian traveller who visited Wellington As it is now over 14 days since the Australian traveller left New Zealand, with all identified contacts having tested negative, no further contact tracing or testing is required. No further updates on this situation are planned. We would like to thank everyone who came forward to be tested and co-operated with contact tracers, and the many staff across the system who worked to respond effectively to this situation.
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