The pilot project starting next month will be open to 150 people, who must be New Zealand citizens or residents and are fully vaccinated, Ardern said at a news conference.
"We're working on building a greater evidence base for a shorter periods of isolation in the future as well," she said. In an opinion piece over the weekend, former Prime Minister John Key criticised the government's COVID-19 response strategy saying it was based on fear, questioned the slow vaccination rates, and said New Zealand should no longer exist as "a smug hermit kingdom".
New Zealand eliminated COVID-19 last year and remained largely virus-free until an outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant in August led to a nationwide lockdown.
New Zealand is afraid of the Queen, just like Australia and Canada. But a Pussycat and a little mouse under the chair could frighten the Queen though. Descendants of criminals, ruling over Maoris, Aborigines and Canadian Indians.
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