The Director General of Health, Dr Ashley Bloomfield, has issued a Health Notice that provides more guidance on the rules during Alert Level 4 to ensure its success and help move New Zealand out of lockdown as soon as possible.
The notice sets out:
Everyone in New Zealand is to be isolated or quarantined at their current place of residence except as permitted for essential personal movement.
Exercise is to be done in an outdoor place that can be readily accessed from home and 2-metre physical distancing must be maintained.
Recreation and exercise does not involve swimming, water-based activities (for example, surfing or boating), hunting, tramping, or other activities of a kind that expose participants to danger or may require search and rescue services.
A child can leave the residence of one joint caregiver to visit or stay at the residence of another joint caregiver (and visit or stay at that residence) if there is a shared bubble arrangement.
A person can leave their residence to visit or stay at another residence (and visit or stay at that residence) under a shared bubble arrangement if:
- One person lives alone in one, or both, of those residences;
- or Everyone in one of those residences is a vulnerable person.
