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Dear John --
Over the past four days, our
campaign to ‘End MIQ Now’ has now reached over 75,000 signatures. This
response has been extraordinary from Kiwis here in New Zealand and all
around the world.
If you haven't signed the petition yet, you
can sign it here.
New Zealanders can see that MIQ has become a lottery of
human misery that shuts out Kiwis from their own country. It is
callous, cruel and unfair.
It’s also great to see
public health experts supporting the idea that MIQ needs to
fundamentally change. In a blog post this morning, Dr Lucy Telfar
Barnard, Dr Jennifer Summers, Lesley Gray, Professor Michael Baker and
Professor Nick Wilson note that the risk of Covid infection for most
vaccinated international arrivals is typically less than the current
risk for Auckland residents.
The experts also noted
that ‘filling MIQ rooms with arrivals who typically have a lower
infection risk than Aucklanders wastes limited MIQ space. Public
health would be better served by having those rooms available for
community cases when their homes are not suitable for home
isolation’.
We’re urging the Government to adopt
National’s position of ending MIQ right now for fully vaccinated
travellers to New Zealand. This is the right thing to do and will put
an end to this lottery of human misery and allow Kiwis to come home
for Christmas.
You can help us continue the fight to
get Kiwis home by signing our petition here.
Thank you again for your
support.
Regards
Chris
Chris Bishop
Spokesperson for COVID-19 Response
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