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Monday, June 29, 2020

Jacinda Ardern decries 'dangerous' calls to reopen New Zealand borders

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The prime minister appeared to be responding to the opposition leader, who has said keeping the borders closed for months or years is ‘untenable’

Jacinda Ardern has decried as “dangerous” her detractors’ calls to open New Zealand’s borders – or present a plan for how she will do so – as the country remains largely free of Covid-19 while the virus spreads abroad.

Telling reporters on Tuesday that she had heard “calls for our borders to be opened to the world”, the New Zealand prime minister referred to “a world where the virus is escalating not slowing and not even peaking in some countries yet, where cases exceed 10 million globally and deaths half a million, where countries are extending and returning to lockdown”.

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from World news | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2ZkIknA

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