New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has described calls for the country to reopen its borders as ‘dangerous’, citing the growing number of coronavirus cases and deaths globally. New Zealand’s lockdown strategy effectively reduced community transmission of the virus, and while relative normaly has returned to domestic life, the borders remain closed. The prime minister has been open about tentative pans for a trans-Tasman bubble between Australia and the Pacific Islands, but says it is not yet safe to implement
Jacinda Ardern decries ‘dangerous’ calls to reopen New Zealand borders
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The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth’s oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east
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