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On 5 February, Immigration New Zealand confirmed that New Zealand's refugee resettlement programme, which had been suspended in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic would resume. The Government plans to resettled 210 refugees by 30 June 2021, with refugees undergoing the mandatory two-week stay in managed isolation.
Some Pacific leaders have raised concerns that the scheme primarily benefits Australian businesses and that the benefits to Pacific island nations and workers are exaggerated. PALM workers in Australia make up 9% of the Tongan working age population, 5% of the working age population of Vanuatu, and 3.4% of the working age population of Samoa.
On 28 February 2020, New Zealand confirmed its first case of COVID-19. [3] [4] At the daily 1 pm press conference on 14 March, Ardern announced that people entering New Zealand must go into a fortnight's self-isolation beginning on 16 March; people coming from Pacific Island nations were initially exempt from these restrictions. [5]
New Zealand has tightened its immigration rules before. In September 2022, the government updated the country's golden visa scheme—popular with Chinese investors—to bar property investments as ...
According to the International Organization for Migration, a United Nations-affiliated agency, poverty is a major cause in the spread of COVID-19 among migrant populations in relation to citizens. Low-income migrant workers tend to live in crowded housing, perform strenuous work, and eat poorly, all of which put them at higher risk of ...
Map of COVID-19 case totals in New Zealand by District health board (DHB) New Zealand reported its first case on 28 February 2020 from a citizen who had arrived from Iran on 26 February. [130] The second case was a citizen who had recently traveled to northern Italy. [131] The first local transmission of the virus happened on 4 March in ...
[10] On 26 April 2005, he said: "Māori will be disturbed to know that in 17 years' time they will be outnumbered by Asians in New Zealand", an estimate disputed by Statistics New Zealand, the government's statistics bureau. Peters quickly responded that Statistics New Zealand had underestimated the growth-rate of the Asian community in the ...
In 2019–20, immigration to Australia came to a halt during the COVID-19 pandemic, which in turn saw a shrinkage of the Australian population for the first time since World War I, [4] [5] though in the following period 2021–22 showed a very strong recovery of migrant arrivals.