A third of all managed isolation spaces 2000 hotel rooms have been empty every day since July. Last week there were about 2600 vacancies out of 7000 hotel rooms.
Henco de Beer is one of those wanting non-New Zealanders to be considered for border exemptions.
He waved goodbye to his four-day old baby boy Sion, his wife and five-year-old daughter Emmabella when he left South Africa in January.
He told reporter Gill Bonnett they had been due to join him in Hamilton in March, and is begging authorities to consider their plight.
