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11.15pm BST

New Zealand has extended its suspension of quarantine-free travel until midnight on Sunday when it will restore regular travel links with New South Wales.

The country enacted the pause on Thursday in response to two new community cases of Covid-19 in Sydney. NSW health officials still have not identified the missing link between the positive tests and quarantine.

Related: Trans-Tasman bubble: New Zealand to lift NSW travel ban on Sunday night

10.48pm BST