Dozen people who stayed at Auckland quarantine hotel linked to variant spread travelled to Australia

Australia pauses trans-Tasman travel bubble until Sunday after three coronavirus cases in the NZ community are linked to the hotel

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Twelve people who quarantined at the Pullman Hotel in New Zealand, where it is suspected the highly infectious South African strain of coronavirus has spread, then travelled on to Australia, authorities have revealed.

Australia announced on Thursday that its pause of the trans-Tasman travel bubble would be extended for three more days after New Zealand recorded two additional cases of the variant linked to the Pullman in Auckland.