3 Feb 2022

Covid-19: NZers head overseas pandemic or no pandemic

From Morning Report, 8:50 am on 3 February 2022

A growing number of young New Zealanders are heading overseas: sick of waiting for the pandemic to end and preparing to roll the dice with Covid-19.

Migration figures show there have been more people leaving the country than arriving each month since April 2021.

It's raising concern the brain gain of 2020 when Covid-19 first hit is now flipping into a brain drain.

Jake McKee reports.