Isolation times for Covid cases is being cut from 10 days to seven.
It's to help keep the wheels turning around country as more people with the virus and their household contacts are stuck at home and pressure goes on transport and food supplies.
Household contacts will need to return a negative rapid antigen test at day three and seven of isolation, before heading back into the outside world.
The change hits at 11:59 pm on Friday. Minister Chris Hipkins talks to Lisa Owen.
Hipkins says some positive community cases will be missed under the change in isolation rules, but it's a necessary risk if the country's supply chains are to stay afloat.
From Saturday, people who test positive - and those they live with - will have to self-isolate for seven days, not 10.
Chris Hipkins told Checkpoint the cost of keeping people in isolation longer was outweighing the benefits.
