Other countries are squinting at our premature lockdown relaxation, and asking: do we really want to let them in?
To New Zealand now, for a glimpse of an endless future: the country, the poster-child for seeing Covid-19 coming and reacting adeptly to it, has announced two new coronavirus infections this week after a 24-day streak without any cases. You can see where these infections came from, can’t you? Both cases were linked to travellers from the UK.
The particulars of the New Zealand case are very sad, so there’s no need to dwell on them – two women from the same family travelled with special dispensation to visit a dying parent. Contorting these personal, life-altering events into the new reality of an infected planet will be an issue until a vaccine emerges – and New Zealand does, broadly, seem to have the issue in hand. But the whole thing does raise sharp-edged questions about the viability of tourists from a country, England, that seems to have met the threat of coronavirus with, “Well, we clapped 10 times in a row then reopened B&Q.” Will all Brits gets tarred with the same brush, and never be allowed to go on holiday again? And, perhaps more importantly: should we really be allowed to?
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