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Australia and New Zealand’s to create a travel bubble this month! What is a ‘Travel Bubble’ and how will it help citizen travel?
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Australia and New Zealand’s to create a travel bubble this month! What is a ‘Travel Bubble’ and how will it help citizen travel?

On Tuesday, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that her country and Australia will create a 'Travel Bubble' to allow quarantine-free travel between the two countries starting April 19. She called the new arrangement 'the Trans-Tasman bubble'. "The bubble will give our economic recovery a boost and represents a world leading arrangement of safely opening up international travel while continuing to pursue a strategy of elimination and keeping the virus out," Adern said at a press briefing Tuesday. This is the first time that the two countries are allowing for passengers to fly without needing a 14-day quarantine, ever since the pandemic began. The pandemic forced countries to impose travel restrictions and close the borders last year. Ever since countries went int...