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Jacinda Ardern says she has found it extremely hard denying friends and family the right to visit dying relatives during lockdown.
During Tuesday’s briefing the Prime Minister was asked about the decision to reconsider the cases of international travelers asking for an exception to their mandatory 14-day quarantine so they can visit their ill relatives.
She says the circumstances around letting families visit their ill relatives was “incredibly difficult”.
“I can’t imagine being in that situation,” she says.
“In fact, one of the things I have found the hardest about the lockdown we have been in is the loss of people’s friends and family during that time.”
International traveler Oliver Christiansen has so far been the only person to be allowed to visit his dying father after his case was taken to the High Court.
Following Christiansen’s win, on Monday Ardern ordered the Minister of Health David Clark to review all 24 cases of Kiwis asking for an exemption from quarantine.
