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COVID-19 managed isolation in New Zealand

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Compulsory quarantine, termed managed isolation by the government, is New Zealand's health response to minimise the risk of new cases of [[Coronavirus disease 2019]] entering the country. Compulsory managed isolation was announced by the prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, at the daily 1 pm press conference on 9 April, with the system coming into effect for people boarding flights to New Zealand from midnight that day. The government has contracted dozens of hotels in five cities that are exclusively used as managed isolation facilities.

==Background==
On 28 February 2020, New Zealand confirmed its first case of Coronavirus disease 2019.<ref></ref><ref></ref> At the daily 1&nbsp;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; Pacific Islanders were initially exempt from these restrictions.<ref></ref> By mid-March, the government was urging New Zealanders to return home urgently.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>

==Managed isolation==
At the daily 1&nbsp;pm press conference on 9 April, Ardern announced that those boarding flights after midnight that day would have to go into managed isolation provided by the government. She explained that government had been considering this measure for some time, but there simply was not the capacity to introduce these measures any earlier as almost 40,000 New Zealanders had returned since 20 March, a number larger than all the country's hotel rooms. Part of the announcement was that the government would use up to 18 hotels,<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> but this was soon increased to 26 by early July<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> and 32 by early August.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>

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