14 Jan 2022

Flights to Cook Islands return as nation reopens borders

From Morning Report, 8:19 am on 14 January 2022

The Cook Islands has reopened its borders to fully vaccinated New Zealanders.

The quarantine-free travel bubble lasted just three months in 2021 before authorities pulled the pin.

RNZ Pacific reporter Lydia Lewis spoke to Morning Report from Auckland Airport, ahead of a flight departing to the Cook Islands.