New Zealand migrant workers suffer agony of Covid-driven family separation

People who emigrated before the pandemic struck have found themselves marooned from family for more than a year

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Jacinda Ardern's government has been urged to end months of misery for migrant workers in New Zealand and reunite families separated by Covid-19.

Hundreds of migrants who moved to New Zealand in the months before March last year were unable to bring their families into the country when Covid-19 prompted border closures.