New Zealand to ‘pause’ travel bubble with NSW amid COVID-19 outbreak

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BREAKING: New Zealand will put a pause on all flights out of Sydney, amid NSW reporting two locally acquired cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.

On Thursday, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian revealed the wife of a man in his 50s, who found out he was infected on Wednesday, tested positive to the virus as well.

New Zealand health officials wasted no time announcing restrictions against NSW, just weeks after both nations opened the trans-Tasman travel bubble.New Zealand has put a pause on flights in and out of NSW. Picture: Marty Melville/AFPCOVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins said while Sydney’s new case was not unexpected being a household contact, there were several outstanding unknowns so it was safest to pause flights, but the situation would be under constant review.

The travel bubble across the ditch launched on April 19, after more than a year of travel bans in place between both countries.against Greater Sydney, in a swift move to keep coronavirus out of its state.

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