After more than two and a half years of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Government has dropped almost all restrictions.
Masks are now only needed in hospitals or aged care facilities, vaccine requirements for travellers have been dropped, and isolation for household contacts of the sick has been axed.
National's Covid Response spokesperson Chris Bishop says the move should've been made much sooner, but he's pleased measures like isolation for positive cases and masks in high-risk settings like healthcare will remain.
He says today will be a strange feeling after so many have got used to the habit of wearing masks.
ACT's David Seymour wants even more rule changes including the isolation requirement being shortened to five days. He'd prefer a test-to-release regime for positive cases.
Susie Ferguson asked Jacinda Ardern if we should expect case numbers to rise with the easing of restrictions.
