A New Zealander who arrived home from Thailand yesterday morning says the Covid-19 measures at Auckland Airport
are "loose" and she felt safer in Southeast Asia."the customs officer who checked her passport casually said, "Are you well?"
"Of course you're going to be like, 'yup' - you just want to get in there."
"It seemed like butt-covering rather than thorough investigation,"
She was also amazed to see travellers greeted in the arrivals hall by friends and family.
"There were planes coming in from category-1 countries... and these people are picking them up and having a hug with them."
She overheard a man in front of her in the queue for Customs saying he was from the United Kingdom and was
in New Zealand for two weeks. She later saw him pick up a brochure on tourist hotspots to visit in New Zealand.
She called out to him and asked why he was picking up a site-seeing brochure if he would be in self-isolation the whole time
he was here, but he looked at her, looked away and walked off.
Alas she didn't then say that she reported this person so that he could be investigated.