New Zealand to start charging some travellers for coronavirus quarantine

Costs set at NZ$3,100 for the first adult, $950 for each additional adult and $475 for each child

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Some travellers returning to New Zealand will have to pay the costs of their quarantine, after the government partially backed down from a controversial plan to bill all arrivals for their two-week isolation stay.

The costs will apply only those who chose to leave the country after the charges are imposed and then return, or those staying in New Zealand for fewer than 90 days, the government said on Wednesday.